People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938

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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
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70 tracks
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19 February 2008
“In the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, 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 the Introduction Songs of death, destruction and disaster, recorded by black and white performers from the dawn of American roots recording are here, assembled together for the first time. Whether they document world-shattering events like the sinking of the Titanic or memorialize long forgott… read more
“In the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, the Depression gripped the Nation. It was a time when songs were tools for living. A whole community would turn… read more
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1 Titanic Blues Charlie Jordan, Hi Henry Brown
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2 Wreck of the Old 97 Skillet Lickers
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3 Bill Wilson Birmingham Jug Band
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4 The Crash of the Akron Bob Miller
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5 The Fate of the Talmadge Osborne Ernest Stoneman
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6 El Mole Rachmin (Fur Titanik) Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt
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7 Wreck of the Old 97 Skillet Lickers
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8 Fate of the Will Rogers & Wiley Post Bill Cox
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9 Play track Down With the Old Canoe Dixon Brothers
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10 Wreck of Number 52 Cliff Carlisle
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11 Kassie Jones Part 1 Furry Lewis
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12 Kassie Jones, Part 2 Furry Lewis
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13 The Brave Engineer Carver Boys
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14 The Sinking of the Titanic Richard Rabbitt Brown
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15 Play track Fate of Chris Lively And Wife Blind Alfred Reed
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16 Wreck On the Mountain Road Red Fox Chasers
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17 The Unfortunate Brakeman Kentucky Ramblers
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18 Play track Altoona Freight Wreck Riley Puckett
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19 The Fatal Wreck of the Bus Mainer's Mountaineers
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20 Last Scene of the Titanic Frank Hutchison
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21 Play track Casey Jones Skillet Lickers
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22 The Wreck of the Westbound Airliner Fred Pendleton
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23 Play track The Titanic Ernest Stoneman
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24 Play track When That Great Ship Went Down William & Versey Smith
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25 Play track The Story of the Mighty Mississippi Ernest Stoneman
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26 Mississippi Heavy Water Blues Robert Hicks
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27 Play track Dixie Boll Weevil Fiddlin' John Carson
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28 Mississippi Boll Weevil Charley Patton
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29 Ohio Prison Fire Bob Miller
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30 Play track Memphis Flu Elder Curry
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31 Explosion in the Fairmount Mine Blind Alfred Reed
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32 Play track Storm That Struck Miami Fiddlin' John Carson
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33 Play track When the Levee Breaks Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
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34 Alabama Flood Andrew Jenkins
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35 Burning of the Cleveland School J. H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies
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36 Play track High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1 Charley Patton
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37 Play track High Water Everywhere, Part 2 Charley Patton
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38 Ryecove Cyclone Martin & Roberts
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39 McBeth Mine Explosion Cap, Andy & Flip
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40 Dry Spell Blues Charley Patton
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41 Play track Baltimore Fire Charlie Poole
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42 Tennessee Tornado Uncle Dave Macon
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43 Play track Dry Spell Blues, Part 2 Son House
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44 The Santa Barbara Earthquake Green Bailey
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45 The Death of Floyd Collins Vernon Dalhart
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46 The Porto Rico Storm Carson Robison Trio
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47 Boll Weavil W.A. Lindsey & Alvin Condor
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48 The Flood of 1927 Elders McIntorsh & Edwards
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49 Play track Peddler And His Wife Hayes Shepherd
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50 Play track The Little Grave in Georgia Earl Johnson
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51 Kenney Wagner's Surrender Ernest Stoneman
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52 Henry Clay Beattie Kelly Harrell
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53 The Murder of the Lawson Family Carolina Buddies
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54 Naomi Wise Clarence Ashley
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55 Play track Railroad Bill Will Bennett
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56 Play track Frankie Dykes Magic City Trio
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57 Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 1 Bill Cox
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58 Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 2 Bill Cox
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59 Lanse Des Belaires Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge
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60 Darling Cora B.F. Shelton
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61 Billy Lyons And Stack O' Lee Furry Lewis
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62 Tom Dooley Grayson & Whitter
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63 The Story of Freda Bolt Floyd County Ramblers
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64 Pretty Polly John Hammond
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65 Fingerprints Upon the Windowpane Bob Miller
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66 Play track The Bluefield Murder Roy Harvey & The North Carolina Ramblers
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67 Frankie Silvers Ashley & Foster
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68 Fate of Rhoda Sweeten Wilmer Watts
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69 Dupree Blues Willie Walker
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70 Poor Ellen Smith Dykes Magic City Trio
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