Moutain Mama's Black Magic

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Wicked Music Hour … home grown and cooking up a pot

1) Black Magic Woman, Santana 5:20
2) Yellow Moon, Neville Brothers 4:04

Fallen in Sectional Constructions, by Michael A. Flanagan

3) Bad Things, Jace Everett 2:44
4) Devil Went Down To Georgia, Charlie Daniels 3:45
5) The Devil Had A Hold Of Me, Gillian Welch, 4:31

Disregarded Gift by Spiel

6) Welcome to my Nightmare, Alice Cooper 2:47
7) Time Warp, Little Nell, Patricia Quinn and Richard O’Brien
8) I Put a Spell On You, Nina Simone 2:38

Red Dress Nightmare by Nancy Bodily

Porcelain woman draped in liquid
red reaches through wet marble lips

Pulls a delicious, velvet snake from her mouth
thick, cascading locks of skin curl her shoulder

Once released, the mighty venomous head delivers rows of glistening teeth
attaches swiftly, violently to the breast

Her winged fingers seize the snake at the nape
tears it from her skin, leaves the slightest trickle of blood

wakes the dreamer

9) Woman is the Devil, The Doors 4:08
10) Sympathy for the Devil, The Rolling Stones 6:17

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück
When Hades decided he loved this girl
he built for her a duplicate of earth,
everything the same, down to the meadow,
but with a bed added.
Everything the same, including sunlight,
because it would be hard on a young girl
to go so quickly from bright light to utter darkness
Gradually, he thought, he'd introduce the night,
first as the shadows of fluttering leaves.
Then moon, then stars. Then no moon, no stars.
Let Persephone get used to it slowly.
In the end, he thought, she'd find it comforting.
A replica of earth
except there was love here.
Doesn't everyone want love?
He waited many years,
building a world, watching
Persephone in the meadow.
Persephone, a smeller, a taster.
If you have one appetite, he thought,
you have them all.
Doesn't everyone want to feel in the night
the beloved body, compass, polestar,
to hear the quiet breathing that says
I am alive, that means also
you are alive, because you hear me,
you are here with me. And when one turns,
the other turns—
That's what he felt, the lord of darkness,
looking at the world he had
constructed for Persephone. It never crossed his mind
that there'd be no more smelling here,
certainly no more eating.
Guilt? Terror? The fear of love?
These things he couldn't imagine;
no lover ever imagines them.
He dreams, he wonders what to call this place.
First he thinks: The New Hell. Then: The Garden.
In the end, he decides to name it
Persephone's Girlhood.
A soft light rising above the level meadow,
behind the bed. He takes her in his arms.
He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you
but he thinks
this is a lie, so he says in the end
you're dead, nothing can hurt you
which seems to him
a more promising beginning, more true.
11) Coyote :14
12) Beyond Here Lies Nothing, by Bob Dylan 3:57
13) The Battle of Evermore, by Led Zeppelin 5:51

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Thanks for listening in … and quoth the raven nevermore

Peace

14) Monster Mash , by Bobby Boris Pickett and the Crypt Keepers 3:12

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