{"id":5797,"date":"2015-10-27T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2015-10-26T12:52:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:52:30","slug":"spooky-country-songs-to-get-you-in-the-halloween-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/10\/27\/spooky-country-songs-to-get-you-in-the-halloween-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Country Songs To Get You In The Halloween Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the spookiest weekends of the year is upon us. Ghosts, witches, zombies and werewolves roam the streets for Halloween weekend. While it is so easy to find country songs about Christmas, it is rare for anyone to think of country music and Halloween together, but there are definitely songs out there that get their spookiness on. Listening to them around Halloween time can really escalate their meanings. The night of this spooky holiday is all about the &#8220;scaries,&#8221; and to get you in the mood, here is a list of 5 of the spookiest country songs through out time that I have complied from research, and from songs that I have personally found to be appropriate for Halloween vibes.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><u> \u201cIt\u2019s a Monster\u2019s Holiday\u201d by Buck Owens<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2aJnRvWq_XI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2aJnRvWq_XI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t help but start this list off with this song. If it doesn\u2019t get you in the Halloween mood I am not really sure what will. If you can\u2019t tell merely from the title, this song is all about the creatures that encompass the meaning of Halloween. Dragons, zombies, Frankenstein, gremlins, goblins, Dracula, and Wolfman are all of the monster\u2019s that are being celebrated during the Halloween season. Buck Owens sang one of the most directly Halloween related songs that I have found, and I like it.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong><u> \u201cTwo Black Cadillacs\u201d by Carrie Underwood<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe title=\"Carrie Underwood - Two Black Cadillacs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oVEBZLrjpw4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t ever cheat on Carrie Underwood. \u201cTwo Black Cadillacs\u201d is only one of many songs that she has about a cheating boyfriend or husband, but it is arguably the most serious. It is about a wife teaming up with \u201cthe other woman\u201d to take out the guy that they both thought was theirs. The music in the song along with the lyrics create an eerie sounding threat that would scare me if I was a cheating guy. The song is very vague about how the women killed the husband, but its sound and the lyrics do make a convincing point to be scared of two pissed off women.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong><u> \u201cCreepin\u2019\u201d by Eric Church<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe title=\"Eric Church - Creepin&#039; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8OZhw-aQTP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.7\">Eric Church\u2019s song Creepin\u2019 is a song is about him looking back on a previous relationship, but his lyrics take it further than him just being reminiscent about his loss, the imagery makes it creepy. \u201cYour cocaine kiss and caffeine love, run under my skin and into my blood.\u201d This line could make any listener\u2019s blood quiver, and the chorus following adds to the creepiness factor. \u201cIvy crawlin\u2019,\u201d \u201cliving in glass,\u201d \u201clike a honeybee beatin\u2019 on my screen door,\u201d and the 30 times the word \u201ccreepin\u2019\u201d is used all contribute to the eeriness. I realize that this song won\u2019t really scare anyone, but it\u2019s tune and sound along with vivid imagery make the song perfect for this Halloween season.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong><u> \u201cGhost Riders in the Sky\u201d by Johnny Cash<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe title=\"Ghost Riders in the Sky - Johnny Cash - Full Song\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mynzbmrtp9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered what hell looks like? Well for a cowboy it would be endlessly chasing around a bunch of mad cows and never being to catch them. And what\u2019s worse? They seem to be devil cows. In this song, Cash has painted a picture of cowboy hell. I picture a very scary setting that is filled with blood and demons, and that is often what I run into on a Halloween night (but the things I run into aren\u2019t real, so I am ok with it.)<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong><u> \u201cBetter Dig Two\u201d by the Band Perry<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Band Perry - Better Dig Two (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZIdCo_QAz_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.7\">This song is actually a bit disturbing if you really pay attention to the lyrics. The Band Perry\u2019s song \u201cBetter Dig Two\u201d is about a girl who is so freaky obsessed with her husband that she plans to die if they are ever separated by death or divorce so she won\u2019t have to see him with someone else. She talks about their burial process as the pre-chorus (one of the catchiest parts of the song) for if he dies before her. This girl takes \u201ctill death do us part\u201d very seriously, to the point where its spooky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Halloween approaches, listen to these songs with this more spooky perspective in mind. When I did, it made me even more aware of the eeriness in so many of these songs. There are many other songs out there that could be included on this list, so as you are listening to country music this week, try to be more aware of the lyrics to see if there is a scary factor that you didn\u2019t even notice before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the spookiest weekends of the year is upon us. Ghosts, witches, zombies and werewolves roam the streets for Halloween weekend. While it is so easy to find country songs about Christmas, it is rare for anyone to think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/10\/27\/spooky-country-songs-to-get-you-in-the-halloween-spirit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post-4","category-lists","category-song-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}