Psycho Country Songs

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Im trying to find some great, creepy psycho country songs. Im thinking of songs like

Elvis Costello's cover of 'Psycho'

Porter Wagoner's 'The Rubber Room'

etc.. any help?

― nothingleft (nothingleft), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

Ray Stevens - "The Streak"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

Johnny Cash covering The Mercy Seat ..

Nick Cave covering Stagger Lee

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

Nick Cave covering Stagger Lee

hell yes, great choice.

― nothingleft (nothingleft), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

Jim Stafford - "Spiders and Snakes"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

I was thinking of adding Damien Jurado's Medicine

it creeps me out enough

― nothingleft (nothingleft), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

John Trubee: 'Peace & Love (Blind Man's Penis)'

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

well, perhaps this is a bit subtle, but I find it truly, sublimely insane.

'Let's Invite Them Over' by George Jones and Melba Montgomery.

― rumple., Monday, 10 November 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link

T-Model Ford to thread.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 November 2003 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

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Id really like songs that chronicle psychosis... I wasnt too clear on that.. or chilling murder ballads are always good as well... but EC's 'Psycho' is what I would consider the benchmark here

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― nothingleft (nothingleft), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

I think "Ode to Billy Joe" is pretty dang creepy!

― paige, Monday, 10 November 2003 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

just about any version of "pretty polly" should do.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

anything hasil adkins ever recorded.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

Johnny Paycheck - 'Pardon Me, I've got Someone to Kill'

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 00:16 (twenty years ago) link

Handsome Family - Arlene
Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl and/or Satan is Real

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 00:17 (twenty years ago) link

I suppose we could come up with lots more murder songs. But how about Little Jimmy Dickens's "Take an Old Cold Tater (And Wait)?" .

― dylan (dylan), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

Andre Williams and the Sadies - "Psycho"

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 03:44 (twenty years ago) link

don't remember who recorded it first, but "It's Nothin' To Me" is pretty looney, no matter what version you hear.

I think there's a good comp called God Less America that pretty much features exactly what yr looking for, if yr going obscuro

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:00 (twenty years ago) link

"Me & Little Andy" by Dolly Parton or "Jeanie's Afraid of the Dark" by Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton are both fairly creepy, along with most Louvin Brothers songs.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:12 (twenty years ago) link

Um..."Crazy"?

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 05:16 (twenty years ago) link

Johnny Paycheck also has a song called "Colorado Kool-Aid" where he cuts a guy's ear off, Reservoir Dogs-style. Then he asks him a question and pretends like the guy can't hear him.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

Beasts of Bourbon's cover of "Psycho" was perhaps insaner than Costellos.

Let's not forget "Delia's Gone" by Johnny Cash.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 00:58 (twenty years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

The most homophobic song I've heard in months.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 May 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link

five years pass...

Larry Hosford's "Billy Jackson"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R65fakEfJoU

big arm shaking like a train on the grade
one cut a way from a wreck

― Heez, Monday, 6 May 2024 19:51 (one week ago) link

Tom T Hall - Turn it On Turn it On Turn it On

― JoeStork, Monday, 6 May 2024 20:17 (one week ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gAYiUmir_w

― ian, Monday, 6 May 2024 20:34 (one week ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtDLN4LoPZA

― ian, Monday, 6 May 2024 20:34 (one week ago) link

the one that sticks in my head is this conway twitty song i heard through the wfmu blog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxqLunc9NjY

written by mickey jaco. you know who mickey jaco was? _conway twitty's wife_.

― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 6 May 2024 22:57 (one week ago) link

amazing

― Heez, Monday, 6 May 2024 23:43 (one week ago) link

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