by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Threads: @stlmarlonwest IG: stlmarlonwest Bluesky: @marlonweststl.bsky.social Spotify: marlonwest)
It’s Music Monday and Halloween right here at Good Black Information! It’s your good friend and selector, the groove conductor, Marlon West. I’ve returned as soon as extra throughout this Season of the Witch with one other assortment.
I’m simply again from a screening and dialogue with Ryan Coogler and a part of his inventive group behind SINNERS. It was the fifth viewing for me, in complete or partly.
I noticed it opening day laser projected, two weeks in a while 70mm IMAX, streamed it twice, as soon as with a sista within the decrease proper nook providing Black ASL, and right now a 70mm print projected on the Administrators Guild of America‘s theater with a really various and reactive crowd early on a Sunday morning. I used to be delighted to run into our GBN Editor-In-Chief Lori Lakin Hutcherson and her mom on the similar screening.
I got here proper dwelling and began pecking a number of phrases on this season’s music assortment, The Crossroads: A Blues Halloween Playlist.
As any of you that take pleasure in my Music Monday playlist is aware of, I really like me some Halloween. That is no less than the fifth All-Hallows Eve assortment I’ve carried out for Good Black Information.
The cinematic juggernaut that’s SINNERS is an efficient reminder of simply how a lot the blues has handled scares each supernatural and real-world primarily based.
From Robert Johnson’s mythic journey the the crossroads to Blind Willie Johnson’s “Darkish Was The Night time, Chilly Was The Floor,” the blues has supplied its share of eerie moments. Bo Diddley’s iconic ‘Who Do You Love” opens with following boasts:
I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wireUsed a cobra snake for a necktieGot a model new home on the roadsideMade from rattlesnake hideGot a model new chimney made on topMade out of a human cranium
Oh, that’s a Halloween music, all proper! Howlin’ Wolf, Koko Taylor, RL Burnside, Norma Tanega, Gary Clark Jr., and so many extra purveyors of the blues are current for this Halloween assortment.
Whether or not your plans embrace handing out sweet to hobgoblins of all ages, chillin’ with associates, or kickin’ at dwelling with that porch gentle out, right here is one other autumnal supply to take pleasure in throughout this Halloween Season.
Please take pleasure in this assortment, and poke round for my others too:(
See ya subsequent month!
And as all the time, keep secure, sane, and type!
