Ready to journey into the dark corners of music history? Buckle up, because we're delving into the chilling stories of murderous women immortalized in song. As we kick things off, we take you from the eerie tale of America's first female serial killer, Lavinia Fisher, to the electrifying classic rock sound of Gentry Blue’s ‘Tell Them I’m Insane’. This isn't just any old tune, it's the raw, emotional narrative of a woman on the brink. We'll guide you through the song's frenzied lyrics and upbeat southern twang that creates a spine-tingling auditory experience you won't soon forget.
But that’s not all! We will also satisfy your dark desire for new music by presenting you with 4 new tracks we’ve just dug up!
If you like what you hear be sure to follow and tune in for new episodes on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.
Follow us on instagram @spookysongspodcast where we post a new spooky song of the day every day of the week!
Finally if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions. Feel free to reach out to us at spookysongspodcast@gmail.com. We also accept submissions from all spooky artists and producers, feel free to drop us a line any time!
Ready to journey into the dark corners of music history? Buckle up, because we're delving into the chilling stories of murderous women immortalized in song. As we kick things off, we take you from the eerie tale of America's first female serial killer, Lavinia Fisher, to the electrifying classic rock sound of Gentry Blue’s ‘Tell Them I’m Insane’. This isn't just any old tune, it's the raw, emotional narrative of a woman on the brink. We'll guide you through the song's frenzied lyrics and upbeat southern twang that creates a spine-tingling auditory experience you won't soon forget.
But that’s not all! We will also satisfy your dark desire for new music by presenting you with 4 new tracks we’ve just dug up!
If you like what you hear be sure to follow and tune in for new episodes on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.
Follow us on instagram @spookysongspodcast where we post a new spooky song of the day every day of the week!
Finally if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions. Feel free to reach out to us at spookysongspodcast@gmail.com. We also accept submissions from all spooky artists and producers, feel free to drop us a line any time!
Speaker 1:
Welcome, dear listener to the Spooky Songs podcast. You're home to all manner of beats that go bump in the night. Join us as we scare up the stories behind some of the spookiest songs ever recorded. And now here are your hosts, levi Bushu and Edgar Dieterman.
Speaker 2:
Welcome to the Spooky Songs podcast, home to all the beats that go bump in the night. We are your hosts, Edgar Dieterman and Levi Bushu, and we are here to discuss songs about horror and hauntings, murder and the macabre, as well as songs that play as the room begins to spin and your poison teacup drops to the floor.
Speaker 3:
If anyone at a roadside B&B offers you a cup of tea after long discussion about your business dealings, I got one thing to tell you, and that is it's poison. Don't drink it. Which brings us to the theme of this show. We are doing yet another show about women who kill.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, the response to the last one was so huge we figured we got to do one more to keep you ravenous hoards happy.
Speaker 3:
This first song is by American Murder Song and it's called Pretty LaVinia and it is all about the first female serial killer in the United States. To give you a little bit of backstory, lavinia Fisher was an owner of this little inn-slash-bed breakfast outside of Charleston, south Carolina. What she would do is she would poison business travelers while her husband would then beat them half to death and take their money. Also, if the voice that's like singing in this song sounds familiar to you is a Terence Zydunic from Most famously repo, the genetic opera, where he's like the narrator in it. But that's one of my all-time favorite horror movies and it's great to hear him singing in this really cool like darkly historic band. I.
Speaker 2:
Wonder, if the poison, the tea, was hydrate, did it come in a little glass vial? A little glass vial?
Speaker 4:
Pre-Lavinia of the six and five mile ends Works a lost parlors in a town of missing men. Carolina swan chews by the finger as she lingers. Really pretty pretty love in Was in the vineyard drunk, one part kisses, three-part run. Another body was home from the Ashley Bank Tied with cat tails and stones until it sank. But Inia, pass the mourners. Pretty, pretty, pretty love in Gossip and needles where the chapel ladies meet Sottering down the street Where's and Me. Pretty, pretty, pretty love in Mr this is three-part from Northern Iowa to Southern Ton. Pretty living young Mr Blake in the penny fish carts split by the open salt-pony's parts.
Speaker 2:
All right, I am not gonna lie, I don't even have to listen to the lyrics of this song, especially with your little history up there. The music with the player piano and the tuba, it's got me. I just wanna start stomping and clapping my hands and yawning all over the place.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, this is definitely like playing in the old-timey bar, when the man in black kicks the saloon door in and starts just shooting up the place.
Speaker 2:
It's like I wanna be playing the little jug like who, who, who like to?
Speaker 3:
match it. Yeah, I don't know what the heck was in Livini's drum exactly, but I do know it's got me just shaking every last bit of junk that's in my trunk because I don't know what Carolina Swamp Juice is. But I gotta get me some of that. I hit it's funky.
Speaker 2:
Carolina Swamp Juice is just Mountain Dew mixed with expired jolt cola and probably meth, a lot of meth, and you can buy it off some juggalos probably.
Speaker 3:
Don't talk about bad juggalos. We covered this in the last episode. But yeah, like, what do you got? What do you got for us with our women who kill episode?
Speaker 2:
I'm bringing you cool Jin's ear, some new music from tiktok, which I totally understand and know how to use For sure. Definitely no cap. No, you don't. Gentry blue is a rad classic rock and blue sounding band from Tennessee that includes an electric violin player, which automatically gives me super pumped, for this song is about a chick who seems like she's over Everyone's shit and is gonna show everyone just how far over the edge she's been driven. Here's tell them I'm insane by Gentry blue.
Speaker 6:
I Look at the mirror. Can I choose what is there? Well, I just need matters because I'm there. Tell you one thing that you could call for a baby you can't find joy without the baby. Oh, I got you.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, this song reminds me of like a super dark version of a good kisser by Lakeshore Drive. Like, if you're gonna tell them everything, tell them I'm a good killer. Like the song is just brimming with every southern, every bit of like southern rock that I've ever heard and I love it. I also love how I turned good kisser into like a 20s doo-wop song.
Speaker 2:
Well, and it's. It's such like an upbeat song, but I count my bullets while the seconds tick down is such a great crazy lyric.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, crazy also like crazy, for how fun it sounds like this is just and like counting time by like Shooting your gun. That's wildly an efficient method of timekeeping. Um, like I've heard of a sundial but a gun dial.
Speaker 2:
Ah yesh, I'm just gonna spend more time down here in the south. That's how we do it down here.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, I'm also a big fan of like how this kind of book ends with our last women who kill episode, because it's almost like a modern version of I didn't know the gun was loaded Like because she does like. Oh well, silly old me if they tell me I guilty. Well, I guess I'm insane. Well, I gotta have to let me off. Like lady, we know you're insane. You're waving your gun around in the middle of the damn courtroom for crying out loud.
Speaker 2:
How did she get that through security? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 3:
Like I'm pretty sure you're allowed to take a gun to a gender reveal party when you're in Tennessee, like you can just do that anywhere.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, as long as the gender reveal isn't that you're trans. Oh god and Jesus.
Speaker 3:
But yeah, they definitely break their guns to those ones for sure, god.
Speaker 2:
We, we, we. We have some new release alerts.
Speaker 3:
Okay, you know what that means. It's time for our new release alert segment, where we talk about some of the brand new songs that we've been listening to and that we think you'll enjoy as well. We're also at the jumping off point for spooky season here, and the floodgates for new spooky songs have opened up. So to keep ourselves from drowning in the deluge of new music, we are going to feature a few extra new release alert songs. Then we usually do. Ed, go ahead and start us off.
Speaker 2:
I'm bringing you a hauntingly beautiful song by an artist who has claimed to coin the term dark jazz. This is image of you by the Lovecraft 610.
Speaker 7:
You, you, you you.
Speaker 3:
You All right. So reya has been one of my favorite new rock groups to come out in the past few years, and they have a great new Creepy rock track called wretch. Like me, let's go ahead and give it a lesson a lesson, not listen Lesson, because I sound like an idiot and I'm going to leave it in.
Speaker 6:
I'll run off your face. It's just great pain and not a war. What's the reason you came?
Speaker 7:
here. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Are you a wretch like me? Are you nuts like me? Every time the sun, let's go, cause a wretch like me works her wicked deeds beneath the guidance of her crown, do you wanna?
Speaker 4:
stand tall. We got all the devil, just like me. More words than empty speeches.
Speaker 6:
The lust from the leeches as they break their bread, far from grace.
Speaker 4:
Wrapped the world from all your face.
Speaker 6:
Patron saves and holy was who's the god of your fighting?
Speaker 7:
Fight, fighting, fighting. Are you a wretch like me? Are you a wretch like me? Every time the sun lays down? Cause, a wretch like me works her wicked deeds beneath the guidance of her crown.
Speaker 2:
A wretch like me. Are you a wretch like me?
Speaker 1:
You got a promise to keep. You got a life, you only. You got a solution, but it isn't cheap. They'll give you everything you need, but if you don't deliver they're gonna send you to the river Trying your whole life to change.
Speaker 4:
Got to know how your knees are praying. You got judgment. You got hate. You got slant out, turns away.
Speaker 7:
And they say you're a sinner, you're gonna take yourself a winner. Take back your hate. It's alright to feel afraid and walk a way so easy.
Speaker 3:
So easy. It's hard to believe that Kim Dracula has been making macabre music for so long with so much success without ever having put out a full-length album, but they finally released their first. It's called a gradual decline in morale and this is one of my favorite tracks for the album. This is death before designer.
Speaker 7:
I'm a bad person. They like my smile, but they miss the evil lurking take a look behind the curtain, baby Lucifer.
Speaker 5:
I went from angel to serpent. I know you want this brand new. I'm a bad person. They like my smile.