Thanks to my friend Dan, I’ve found a suitable answer to my desperate question regarding music not unlike the Deadwood theme: William Elliott Whitmore.  Frankly, Mr. Whitmore, where have you been all my life?!  A bearded, tattooed man described as having “a voice that sounds like the reincarnation of an old gospel preacher from the 1920s and [who has] a fascination with sin, death, and redemption to match?”  Yes, please!

I haven’t been able to stop listening to his records since Dan mentioned him… which means, pretty much, that all 5 of them I downloaded from iTunes have been on constant rotation in our apartment this week.  Thank goodness Jon was out of town, he tends to get annoyed when I listen to the same record for the 15th time in a row.