Hayden & Dinah Washington

Really, I should have posted these much earlier as it's just a few days from October, but I didn't. Leave me alone. Anywho, two very different songs about the cruel mistress of a ninth month. Watch your backs.

Dinah Washington - September In The Rain

Hayden - In September

Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash

I'm sure that in most circles, this song is very well known and a classic and everybody knows it and yadda yadda yadda. Well, I just heard it a few weeks ago SO BACK OFF.

Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - The Girl From The North Country

Jelly Roll Morton

It's easy to draw a line from the early social objections to jazz to those same modern day objections to hip-hop, but it's hard to compare Duke Ellington to Mobb Deep. Unless you're talking about "The Murder Ballad."

"The Murder Ballad," in seven parts, was performed by Jelly Roll Morton and recorded by Alan Lomax (of Smithsonian fame) in 1938, and makes 50 Cent look like a fucking pussy. Parts five through seven, which have all the graphic women's prison sex, to come later.

Jelly Roll Morton - The Murder Ballad Part 01

Jelly Roll Morton - The Murder Ballad Part 02

Jelly Roll Morton - The Murder Ballad Part 03

Jelly Roll Morton - The Murder Ballad Part 04

Marty Robbins

Any neo-calypso/country song with the lyric "Devil Woman you're evil/Like the dark coral reef" is alright in my book. Ozzy stole all his shit from Marty.

Marty Robbins - Devil Woman.mp3