Less country music Christmas albums, and more country music Halloween albums I say. And if a cottage industry happened to crop up for spooky country music every October, it would stand to reason Madison, Wisconsin’s Those Poor Bastards would have the market cornered. Beware interlopers and carpetbaggers, these bastards have been purveyors of their self-described “Country Doom” for a decade.
Hank Williams, Hank3, Johnny Cash, Lonesome Wyatt, Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks, Nick Cave, Review, The Carter Family, The Louvin Brothers, Those Poor bastards, Tom Waits, Vicious Losers