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This song tells about a man who buys a used '66 Corvette and finds it comes with a ghostly soldier named Private Malone. One rainy night, while driving too fast, he misses the curb and crashes the car. Witnesses to the crash say they saw a soldier pulling him out of the car.
First recorded by country act Shenandoah, the heart-wrenching ballad was also covered by both Alison Krauss and the Dixie Chicks. In this story, the narrator plays the ghost who watches over a house, but doesn't upkeep it. Although it appears the ghost is suffering from a breakup and loneliness, he reveals that there actually is another ghost with him in the house.
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I don't think I have heard this one before. Little secret about me, or maybe not so secret anymore, sometimes I get an overwhelming curiosity about the people in my cemetery. I have to fight off the urge to detect it. But it is also what drives me to detect and bottle dig the rest of the farm.
The disturbing part of Bobby Bare‘s 1974 hit song is that it was loosely based on a true story and Marie Laveau was a real person. While Bare sings about an ugly witch who hides in the swampy bayou of Louisiana, the real Laveau was a practitioner of voodoo in the French Quarter – and often described as a powerful entrepreneur.
GRAVEDIGGER by The New York Rock Ensemble
This song by the New York Rock Ensemble and the band was featured in the psychedelic western movie ZACHIRIAH with Don Johnson, John Rubinstein and Country Joe and the Fish as an outlaw gang with guitars in their saddle scabbards.
The New York Rock Ensemble were graduates of Julliard, where they played cellos and oboes and chamber music.
Michael Kamin, the vocalist and keyboard player went in to compose many film scores, including Kevin Costner's ROBIN HOOD,PRINCE OF THEIVES.: