by Julian Spivey As we welcome October with its cool breezes, and - now socially distanced - festivities, we often think of scary movies, pumpkin patches and killers in masks. Rarely, if ever, do you hear anyone say what they’re looking forward to most about the season, is the music. Granted, Halloween music has nowhere near the mega-market that Christmas music has, but it seems that quality trumps quantity in this particular situation. With songs like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” Halloween season is a heavy hitter when it comes to music! That’s why we’re celebrating 31 Days of Halloween Hits here at The Word for the entire month of October. Every day we’re going to bring you a great song that fits right in on your Halloween playlist. Some are songs specifically written for the holiday, but others are great selections you can listen to year-around but have a great theme for the spookiest of all holidays. Some of these songs you’ve certainly heard and some are lesser known that we hope to familiarize you with. “Southern Babylon” was one of many highlights from country singer Ashley McBryde’s 2018 major label debut album Girl Going Nowhere. Written by McBryde and Tommy Collier following a conversation about where musicians go when they die, “Southern Babylon” is the name of a bar – because as McBryde mentions in a behind the song video, of course a musician is going to go to a bar – that’s essentially purgatory. It’s interesting to find out that the song is actually about a musician dying in a car crash on the way to a gig and ending up in purgatory. I always kind of thought the musician ended up in Hell with the whole “Southern” aspect of the bar’s name, as well as the band being ready to play stuff like Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and “Hotel California” by the Eagles. You can tell McBryde and Collier were really going for a “Hotel California” (which could be Heaven or could be Hell) with “Southern Babylon” and the track has a really nice Southern gothic feel to it that’s perfect for a Halloween playlist.
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