Bone Music by Alan Rodgers

Author:Alan Rodgers [Rodgers, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: apocalyptic horror, supernatural horror, blues, voodoo, angels and demons
Publisher: Chameleon Publishing Inc.
Published: 2015-05-13T23:00:00+00:00

On a Railway in the Southwest - The Present

Somewhere in the night it came to Dan Alvarez that he had to go to New Orleans, but he never learned why. He had an intuition, and it went like this — he dreamed that he was made of music, and as the music sounded it rang out of the Mississippi Delta, just like the blues when men first sang it. Blues grew so beautiful as it flowered from the misery of the Delta, because hardship, poverty, and oppression are gifts in their own awful way.

They’re gifts because they bring the greatness out of all of us, no matter how they grieve us.

I want to be a hobo bluesman, Dan thought in his dream. I want to move from town to town like a no-account bum, and I want to play those songs so laced with magic that they change everything that hears them.

Dan had heard lots of songs like that on scratchy old records — old recordings full of mystery and magic, and something higher and more beautiful, something — something magic in those blues. Dan loved those blues. It was the ghost of their beauty that drove him into rock ‘n’ roll, but he never found the ghost in rock, no matter how he looked for it.

And maybe that’s the nature of the beast. Maybe that’s what it is — magic. Maybe, Dan thought, the blues aren’t just music.

Maybe they’re magic.

Then he was dreaming again, and he dreamed an awful weirdling dream where cruel gods walked the earth —

No, not gods, these weren’t gods but something less, they were petty godlets that run and hide when they see the shadow of the One True Lord —

And now in his dream it was 1952, and Dan stood among a crowd of great musicians on a high bluff outside Nashville, Tennessee, and all the bluesmen all the true bluesmen and women sang. . . !

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