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People take warning, murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938

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People take warning

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murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938

Whether documenting the sinking of the Titanic or a long-forgotten local murder, these 70 recordings are audio messages in a bottle, reflecting a lost world where age-old ballads rubbed up against songs inspired by the day's headlines"In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Depression gripped the nation. It was a time when songs were tools for living. A whole community would turn out to mourn the loss of a member and to sow their songs like seeds. This collection is a wild garden grown from those seeds." -- Tom Waits, from Introduction"This beautifully remastered 70 track collection presents powerful and tragic stories from the Golden Age of American roots music." -- back cover

disc 1, Man v. machine. Titanic blues (Hi Henry Brown, Charlie Jordan) -- Wreck of the Old Southern 97 (Skillet Lickers) -- Bill Wilson (Birmingham Jug Band) -- Crash of the Akron (Bob Miller) -- Fate of Talmadge Osborne (Ernest Stoneman) -- El Mole Rachmim (für Titanik) (Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt) -- Wreck of the Virginian (Blind Alfred Reed) -- Fate of Will Rogers & Wiley Post (Bill Cox) -- Down with the old canoe (Dorsey Dixon Brothers) -- Wreck of Number 52 (Cliff Carlisle) -- Kassie Jones : pt. 1-2 (Furry Lewis) -- Brave engineer (Carver Boys) -- Sinking of the Titanic (Richard "Rabbit" Brown) -- Fate of Chris Lively and Wife (Blind Alfred Reed) -- Wreck on the mountain road (Paul Miles ; Red Fox Chasers) -- Unfortunate brakeman (Kentucky Ramblers) -- Altoona freight wreck (Riley Puckett) -- Fatal wreck of the bus (Mainer's Mountaineers) -- Last scene of the Titanic (Frank Hutchison) -- Casey Jones (Skillet Lickers) -- Wreck of the westbound airliner (Fred Pendleton ; West Virginia Melody Boys) -- Titanic (Ernest Stoneman) -- When that great ship went down (William & Versey Smith)disc 2, Man v. nature. Story of the mighty Mississippi (Ernest Stoneman) -- Mississippi heavy water blues (Robert Hicks) -- Dixie boll weevil (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Mississippi boweavil (Charlie Patton) -- Ohio prison fire (Charlotte & Bob Miller) -- Memphis flu (Elder Curry) -- Explosion in the Fairmount Mine (Blind Alfred Reed) -- Storm that struck Miami (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- When the levee breaks (Kansas Joe, Memphis Minnie) -- Alabama flood (Andrew Jenkins) -- Burning of the Cleveland School (J.H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies) -- High water everywhere : pt. 1-2 (Charlie Patton) -- Ryecove cyclone (Asa Martin, James Roberts) -- McBeth Mine explosion (Andy & Flip Cap) -- Dry well blues (Charlie Patton) -- Baltimore fire (Charlie Poole) -- Tennessee tornado (Uncle Dave Macon ; McGee Brothers) -- Dry spell blues : pt. 2 (Son House) -- Santa Barbara Earthquake (Green Bailey) -- Death of Floyd Collins (Vernon Dalhart) -- Porto Rico Storm (Carson Robison Trio) -- Boll weavil (W.A. Lindsey, Alvin Condor) -- Flood of 1927 (Elders McIntorsh & Edwards)disc 3, Man v. man (and woman too). Peddler and his wife (Hayes Shepherd) -- Little grave in Georgia (Earl Johnson) -- Kenny Wagner's surrender (Ernest Stoneman) -- Henry Clay Beattie (Kelly Harrell) -- Murder of the Lawson Family (Carolina Buddies) -- Naomi Wise (Clarence Ashley) -- Railroad Bill (Will Bennett) -- Frankie (Dykes Magic City Trio) -- Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann : pt. 1-2 (Bill Cox) -- Lanse des Belaires (Dennis McGee, Ernest Fruge) -- Darling Cora (B.F. Shelton) -- Billy Lyons and Stack O' Lee (Furry Lewis) -- Tom Dooley (Grayson and Whitter) -- Story of Freda Bolt (Floyd County Ramblers) -- Pretty Polly (John Hammond) -- Fingerprints upon the windowpane (Bob Miller) -- Bluefield murder (Roy Harvey ; the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Frankie Silvers (Ashley & Foster) -- Fate of Rhoda Sweeten (Wilmer Watts ; Lonely Eagles) -- Dupree blues (Willie Walker) -- Poor Ellen Smith (Dykes Magic City Trio)

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Murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938Murder ballads and disaster songs, 1913-1938