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PEOPLE TAKE WARNING! MURDER BALLADS & DISASTER SONGS, 1913-38

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PEOPLE TAKE WARNING! MURDER BALLADS & DISASTER SONGS, 1913-38
3-CD boxed set. These are audio messages in a bottle reflecting a lost world where age old ballads rubbed up against songs inspired by the day's headlines. Charlie Patton, Ernest Stoneman, Furry Lewis, Charlie Poole, Uncle Dave Macon and others sing about everything from the sinking of the Titanic to now-obscure local murders. 48 page booklet. Intro by Tom Waits.
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Contents:

Disc 1 - Man vs. Machine:

  1. Titanic Blues - Hi Henry Brown & Charlie Jordan
  2. Wreck of the Old 97 - Skillet Lickers
  3. Bill Wilson - Birmingham Jug Band
  4. The Crash of the Akron - Bob Miller
  5. The Fate of Talmadge Osborne - Ernest Stoneman
  6. El Mole Rachmim (Für Titanik) - Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt
  7. The Wreck of the Virginian - Alfred Reed
  8. Fate of Will Rogers & Wiley Post - Bill Cox
  9. Down with the Old Canoe - Dixon Brothers
  10. Wreck of Number 52 - Cliff Carlisle
  11. Kassie Jones Part 1 - Furry Lewis
  12. Kassie Jones Part 2 - Furry Lewis
  13. The Brave Engineer - Carver Boys
  14. The Sinking of the Titanic - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
  15. Fate of Chris Lively and Wife - Blind Alfred Reed
  16. Wreck on the Mountain Road - Red Fox Chasers
  17. The Unfortunate Brakeman - Kentucky Ramblers
  18. Altoona Freight Wreck - Riley Puckett
  19. The Fatal Wreck of the Bus - Mainer's Mountaineers
  20. Last Scene of the Titanic - Frank Hutchison
  21. Casey Jones - Skillet Lickers
  22. The Wreck of the Westbound Airliner - Fred Pendleton
  23. The Titanic - Ernest Stoneman
  24. When That Great Ship Went Down - William & Versey Smith

Disc 2 - Man vs. Nature:

  1. The Story of the Mighty Mississippi - Ernest Stoneman
  2. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues - Robert Hicks
  3. Dixie Boll Weevil - Fiddlin' John Carson
  4. Mississippi Boweavil - Charlie Patton
  5. Ohio Prison Fire - Bob Miller
  6. Memphis Flu - Elder Curry
  7. Explosion in the Fairmount Mine - Blind Alfred Reed
  8. Storm That Struck Miami - Fiddlin' John Carson
  9. When the Levee Breaks - Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
  10. Alabama Flood - Andrew Jenkins
  11. Burning of the Cleveland School - J. H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies
  12. High Water Everywhere, Part 1 - Charlie Patton
  13. High Water Everywhere, Part 2 - Charlie Patton
  14. Ryecove Cyclone - Martin & Roberts
  15. McBeth Mine Explosion - Cap, Andy & Flip
  16. Dry Well Blues - Charlie Patton
  17. Baltimore Fire - Charlie Poole
  18. Tennessee Tornado - Uncle Dave Macon
  19. Dry Spell Blues, Part 2 - Son House
  20. The Santa Barbara Earthquake - Green Bailey
  21. The Death of Floyd Collins - Vernon Dalhart
  22. The Porto Rico Storm - Carson Robison Trio
  23. Boll Weavil - W. A. Lindsey & Alvin Condor
  24. The Flood of 1927 - Elders McIntorsh & Edwards

Disc 3 - Man vs. Man (And Woman, Too):

  1. Peddler and His Wife - Hayes Shepherd
  2. The Little Grave in Georgia - Earl Johnson
  3. Kenney Wagner's Surrender - Ernest Stoneman
  4. Henry Clay Beattie - Kelly Harrell
  5. The Murder of the Lawson Family - Carolina Buddies
  6. Naomi Wise - Clarence Ashley
  7. Railroad Bill - Will Bennett
  8. Frankie Dykes - Magic City Trio
  9. Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 1 - Bill Cox
  10. Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 2 - Bill Cox
  11. Lanse Des Belaires - Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge
  12. Darling Cora - B.F. Shelton
  13. Billy Lyons and Stack O' Lee - Furry Lewis
  14. Tom Dooley - Grayson and Whitter
  15. The Story of Freda Bolt - Floyd County Ramblers
  16. Pretty Polly - John Hammond
  17. Fingerprints Upon the Windowpane - Bob Miller
  18. The Bluefield Murder - Roy Harvey & The North Carolina Ramblers
  19. Frankie Silvers - Ashley & Foster
  20. Fate of Rhoda Sweeten - Wilmer Watts
  21. Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
  22. Poor Ellen Smith - Dykes Magic City Trio

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