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Hillbilly Halloween - A Collection of Haunted Country and Hillbilly Music!

(document Records)

He warn't tellin' no lie, that old stump-jumper down the way: After Jasper n'em douse the fire under the kettle, when lightness starts t'fadin', danged if ha'nts don't come 'round an' fire up cold cinders. You'd be right smart t'bar the door, if'n you got a hankerin' t'hear this here on the victrola.

Recommended: "Flyin' Saucer Baby" (Georgia Jim), "Rockin' Bones" (Ronnie Dawson), "Forces of Evil" (Jay Brinkley), "The Ghost in the Graveyard" (The Prairie Ramblers), "Riders in the Sky" (Stan Jones), "Jole Blon's Ghost" (Orville Newby and the Saddle Serenaders), "Haunted House Boogie" (The 3D Valley Boys)

Videos: "Flyin' Saucer Baby"   "Jole Blon's Ghost"   "Ghost-Town-Boogie"   "Haunted House Boogie"   "Hashing Up the Devil"

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Billy Cobb

Halloween X   Digital EP

(Please Sign Me)

In but a clawed handful of fortnights, Jack Pierce willing, All Hallows Eve's shadowy silhouette will fall across our thorny paths. Composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Billy has issued trick-or-treat discs in past years, and this crispest unfurls characteristically macabre pleasantries. ("Vampire Girls" suggests that Teen Angel might have had pointed ears all along.) SEE misshaped aberrances lurch at dusk! HEAR Rock'n'Roll agitate gravel as materializes the orgy of the dead! THRILL as vampire girls undulate mesmerizingly!

Recommended: "13 Knocks," "The Werewolf Feeds," "Vampire Girl," "Psycho," "Mysterious Mose"

Videos: "13 Knocks"   "Vampire Girl"   "Mysterious Mose"

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P. Paul Fenech

Happy Halloween IX   10" EP

(Mutant Rock Records)

Where matters concern P. Paul, there exist no consequence  confusions. The Meteors' visage excels at dastardliness. Tracks weren't available for early consideration, as this 500-copy disc's issuance is timed for portentious All Hallow's Eve prefacing. But P. Paul's antecedent efforts all manifest his brick hammer-finesse and predilection for motifs disquieting. This writer feels assured touting new maraudings unheard.

Recommended: "The Thirteenth Chime," "You're Dead," "Ghost Mountain," "Funeral for a Saint (Muerte en Octobre)"

Videos from prior Happy Halloween VIII: "Gimme Gimme Halloween"   "All Hail the Pumpkin Head (King of Halloween"

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