This episode drops the needle on “Haunted House,” a sly, spectral blues recorded in the late 1920s by two giants of early American music: guitar virtuoso Lonnie Johnson and banjoist-turned-bandleader Elmer Snowden. On the surface, it’s a playful ghost story — blue spirits drifting through a lonely home.

But like the best blues, the haunting here is metaphorical: for love that lingers, loneliness that won’t leave, and memories that pace the halls long after the night has settled in.

Dustbin Prophecies: digging through the forgotten corners of rock history — one record at a time.