Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from October 1, 2024 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

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Favoriting October 1, 2024: The Wiggle Room w/ BC Sterrett: Halloween Country Music for 1 hour.
I used to love challenges to make Halloween comps in a specific genre. In 2012, I chose country music. Not only did this turn out to be one of my favorite comps, but I really loved creating the cover art. What I find most interesting is that each genre will have different aspects of horror that they'll focus on. The the leading key elements for country horror is: 1. SATAN - This may stem from the good church going Christian origins of much early country music. Next to Heavy Metal, Country has to be the next leading genre to create countless tunes about the horned one with a pitchfork. 2. HELL - The result of poor choices, infidelity and the wages of sin. 3. DEATH - Sometimes accidental 4. MURDER - Usually due to cheating relations 5. INSANITY - A knee jerk response to a cheating spouse, or a serial killer who can't give it up. 6. ACCIDENTS AND WRECKS - often due to alcohol 7. GRAVEYARDS and the GRAVE 8. GHOSTS These songs are DARK DARK. I may not be able to play the entire comp, but will fill in as much as I can within the hour. Man, if only country music still sounded more like this, I'd be a life long fan. I just had surgery this morning and I'm still dizzy. If it's alright, I'm just going to post the entire setlist at once and we'll see how far we get till the hour is up :)

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Prince Arky  Ten Horned Devil   Favoriting
Horace Heller  Ed's Place   Favoriting
Porter Wagner  Rubber Room   Favoriting
Merle Kilgore  The Bell Witch   Favoriting
Lumberjack  Hell Bound Train   Favoriting
Katie Lee  Insane   Favoriting
The Louvin Brothers  Satan Is Real   Favoriting
George Weston  Dead Man   Favoriting
Wayland Chandler  Cold Cold Grave   Favoriting
Lefty Frizzell  Long Black Veil   Favoriting
Merle Kilgore  Lover's Hell   Favoriting
Tommy Scott and Scotty Lee  Exorcism   Favoriting
Della Hicks  When the Debbil Taps You on de Back   Favoriting
Bud Messner  I Died All Over You   Favoriting
Ferlin Huskey  The Drunken Driver   Favoriting
Hank Williams  Lonely Tombs   Favoriting
Eddie Noack  Delores   Favoriting
Benny Joy  Dark Angel   Favoriting
Mohawk and the Red Necks  Enchanted Forest   Favoriting
Billy Barton  The Devil My Conscience and I   Favoriting
Sterling Blythe  You Picked Up a Stranger   Favoriting
Slim O'Mary  Ghost of Henry Wells   Favoriting
Cheryl Thompson  Black Night   Favoriting
Russ "Big Daddy" Blackwell  The Little Monster   Favoriting
Glenn Barber  I Created a Monster   Favoriting
Eddie Noack  Psycho   Favoriting
Louie Innis  Suicide   Favoriting
Benny Hess  Walking That Last Mile   Favoriting
Lum Hatcher  Behind The Fear   Favoriting
Dude Martin  On A Hill   Favoriting


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Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello!
Avatar 👻 7:55pm
BC Sterrett:

Howdy Folks. I just had surgery this morning and I'm still dizzy. If it's alright, I'm just going to post the entire setlist at once and we'll see how far we get till the hour is up :)
Avatar 7:57pm
Imaginos:

Ahoy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Krys O.:

Hi!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @7:57
Hey! Wonderful to see you in the chat. I've got my bolo tie on and I'm wearing all black. Time to see how long I'll make it in the Country Wiggle Room.
Avatar 7:59pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @7:58
Wonderful to see you, too. Wondering what I will hear tonight
Avatar 8:00pm
Imaginos:

I know the titles but not the sounds
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Austin Rich:

Here we go! Turn it up!
Avatar 👻 8:02pm
BC Sterrett:

its ok to post a setlist all at once right?
Avatar 8:03pm
Imaginos:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:02
Okay with me
Avatar 👻 8:04pm
BC Sterrett:

This may be the song that inspired the cover art...
Avatar 👻 8:07pm
Mr Fab:

Hey BC, your Halloween spooktacular is ON! At least up to 5pm Eastern. Still have to talk to the DJ who starts at 5, then if it's ok by him, up til 7pm. You can start as early as you like.
Avatar 👻 8:09pm
BC Sterrett:

Wonderful Mr. Fab :) Thanks for helping make it possible
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Austin Rich:

I remember, growing up largely in the 80's, thinking that I didn't really like Country Music. What I realized as an older person is that I really didn't like 80's Country music, which is what I mostly heard on the radio in those days.
Avatar 👻 8:11pm
BC Sterrett:

The Bell Witch case is the only time in history, I'm aware of where the court proclaimed "Death by Ghost"
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:11
Didn't they used to say that planets were one potential cause of death? Not exactly a ghost...
Avatar 👻 8:12pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ Austin Rich @8:10
I'm the same. I found I liked the older stuff. I can't stand country music in general.
Avatar 👻 8:13pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ Austin Rich @8:12
Interesting! I don't know a whole lot about it.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Austin Rich:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:13
www.popsci.com...
Avatar 8:15pm
Imaginos:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:12
I'm not fond of most country music but I do like Coming Back For More and Ghost Riders in the Sky
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
WR:

Not Insane!
Avatar 👻 8:16pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ Austin Rich @8:14
Huh, bizzarre!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Maulydaft:

↳ Imaginos @8:15
I so agree!!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @8:16
If we're not insane now, what were we before?
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Satan Is Real" by "The Louvin Brothers"
A classic group, classy song.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:15
Ghost Riders In The Sky is pretty excellent. I remember trying to wrap my head around it, as a young person, trying to understand what it could actually be about. I was so literal as a kid, I really wanted to know where these Ghost Riders came from.
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
WR:

↳ BC Sterrett @7:55
Very dedicated. Thanks for keeping the lights on for us tonight. I had out patient surgery a few weeks ago and I went home an crashed and burned.
Avatar 👻 8:25pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ WR @8:23
I try :)
Avatar 👻 8:27pm
BC Sterrett:

If I had continued doing these genre comps, I think my next one was going to be DISCO
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Long Black Veil" by "Lefty Frizzell"
Great version of this tune.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @8:28
Yeah, I had never heard that.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:27
There's a few tunes I can think of off hand, but that one might be more abstract than this one.
Avatar 👻 8:32pm
BC Sterrett:

When I first heard this Exorcism song, I knew I had to track down the OG 45.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Austin Rich:

This song is intense!
Avatar 👻 8:36pm
BC Sterrett:

Another comp I'd like to do is Halloween Library Music.
Avatar 👻 8:36pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ Austin Rich @8:34
It's like that song throws everything in, with the kitchen sink!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Austin Rich:

At one point Vampire Songs were the biggest part of my Halloween collection. Now I think Ghost Songs outnumber them.
Avatar 👻 8:39pm
BC Sterrett:

ooh, thematic comps would be interesting as well...ever compile them together??
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
Austin Rich:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:39
I just have lots of "Halloween Music" folders. Never assembled any comps. I mostly save them for Halloween radio; I've done something every year since 2004, and started collecting tunes a couple years before that.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

Damn. There's just more blood and guts in the average country song than most other genres.

Maybe heavy metal can match them, pound of flesh for pound of flesh?
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Lonely Tombs" by "Hank Williams"
An oft recorded song:
secondhandsongs.com...
Avatar 👻 8:47pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ WR @8:45
Wow!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Austin Rich:

Sort of related: I'm playing all music and recordings by people we have lost recently. "The People Who Died," will continue the morbidity as the night continues...
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Dark Angel" by "Benny Joy"
Didn't know of this Johnny Cash sounding guy.
Avatar 👻 8:51pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ Austin Rich @8:50
Oh my, Stay tuned for Mid-Valley Mutations
with Austin Rich
Avatar 8:55pm
AMYGDALA:

↳ BC Sterrett @7:55
Many thanks BC - great show tonight - loved it!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery from your surgery!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Austin Rich:

↳ AMYGDALA @8:55
Seriously! Recovery can be hard. But radio can help!
Avatar 👻 8:56pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ AMYGDALA @8:55
Thanks Amygdala :)
Avatar 👻 8:57pm
BC Sterrett:

This is one of my favorite tracks, glad it made it within the hour.
Avatar 👻 8:59pm
BC Sterrett:

This will probably be the last track. Thanks for listening in! See everyone on Halloween Day :)
Avatar 9:00pm
AMYGDALA:

↳ Austin Rich @8:55
So true Austin - music (and WFMU radio) is so therapeutic! Not sure how I'd cope without them.
  👻 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
WR:

Whoa, so many great tunes, hope to hear some more of them sometime.

Thank you! BC Sterrett.

Rest and heal.

Laters.
Avatar 👻 9:03pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ WR @9:02
Thank you WR :) Glad you were here!
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