There is a song all bluesmen know: they call it the song for Judgment Day. Some of them know it in bits and pieces; others know it nearly whole. The oldest, greatest deepest talents among them know the song as it truly will be sung - but none of them would ever sing it just that way.

The bluesmen of the Delta call the song Judgment Day - because that's when they'll sing it. Gabriel will blow his horn, and all the Hoodoo Doctors everywhere will hear, and they'll sing Judgment Day. And the sound and the resonance that rise up from their truest song will shatter the Eye of the World. When it shatters the Apocalypse will be upon us.

Terrible things that weigh on a song - things that would hang like doom impending if Judgment Day were just another simple four-four melody. But Judgment Day isn't just a song; it's an unmasterable riff that lives only in the deepest secret hearts of Hoodoo Doctors. Only one man alive has ever deduced the song and sung it just exactly so...
-- Alan Rodgers, Bone Music

Judgment Day has two meanings for us. It's one of the MajorArcana, as "Judgment," but it is also the cursed and blackly powerful song that BlindJoeBiscuit got from TheMan in exchange for his sight. He wove parts of that song into the song he and AngieTaylor sung at SunRecords, setting LewisFelt on our trail.

These days, he's trying to rework the song into RedemptionDay.

Heh. Synchronicity turns once more; I came somewhat close to doing an RPG project with Alan until his life took a sudden sad turn. [Bryant]

Links

• http://www.tarotpassages.com/old_moonstruck/oneill/20.htm
• http://www.aeclectic.net/basics/judgement.html