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This site: http://www.luckymojo.com/blues.html is extremely informative. Especially as I want to use both voodoo and hoodoo in the songs but I don't want to ignore that they're different. The whole you can't break a rule if you don't know it thing, if you must.
Despite having started working on instrumentation it is unclear if it would be better to sample other songs and try to hide that fact (i. e. change the songs but prevent it from sounding modernized if possible) or if I should stick to what I can eek out of my limited technical ability. Ennio Morricone's Revolver soundtrack could form the backbone of the cowgirl interludes. In Milwaukee there is a Golden Chicken Diner where I should be taking some pictures which will relate to this and if I am able to they'll go up here.
Detection in the Spanish tradition means "taking the roof off" due to the story of the devil who occasionally offered one of his favorites the entertainment created by removing the roof of the neighbor's house, and thus a detective is the disciple or son of the devil. That I find helpful, that and and the idea that a detective and criminal are suspect because they are "both deuteragonists in an occult ritual incomprehensible to the law abiding spectator." It may or may not make it into the lyrics, but there does not seem to me to be a great deal of difference between someone who tries to steal the truth from others by lying and someone who tries to steal the truth for themselves at the expense of other people's privacy. This comes up, I hope it is clear, because Sweetheart is a no good cheating lass who's been going from bed to bed and the Detective who isn't really a detective may be true blue but his trying to untangle her lies makes him just as culpable in their bid for power. Ah, again, just something I've been thinking about rather than something necessarily useful.
Also: "If anything was Lost, Whether by Negligence of the Owner, or Vigilance and Dexterity in the Thief, away we went to the Detective." This would serve as a good title to the opening detective's song, all the better for it's wordiness. I may have a narrator announce each song title before the song starts, which would go a long way to the goal of evoking a movie score.
Any ideas about : fidelity, Southern folk magic, detectives that may or may not be in cahoots with the devil, diners in the Wisconsin Illinois Iowa area with names that are remarkably similar to The Golden Rooster?