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

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Call Number: CD Folk People Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Tompkins Square: TSQ1875AV1--TSQ1875AV3 (on container: TSQ1875).
Originally released on 78 rpm discs.
Compact disc; in container (14 x 28 cm.).
Program notes by Christopher C. King, Henry "Hank" Sapoznik, and Tom Waits, and some lyrics (48 p. : ill.) bound in container.
Disc 1, Man v. machine. Titanic blues (Hi Henry Brown & Charlie Jordan) ; Wreck of the Old 97 (Skillet Lickers) ; Bill Wilson (Birmingham Jug Band) ; The crash of the Akron (Bob Miller) ; The fate of Talmadge Osborne (Ernest Stoneman) ; El mole rachmim (für Titanik) (Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt) ; The wreck of the Virginian (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 part 1 ; Kassie Jones part 2 (Furry Lewis) ; The brave engineer (Carver Boys) ; The sinking of the Titanic (Richard "Rabbit" Brown) ; Fate of Chris Lively and wife (Blind Alfred Reed) ; Wreck on the mountain road (Red Fox Chasers) ; The unfortunate brakeman (Kentucky Ramblers) ; Altoona freight wreck (Riley Puckett) ; The fatal wreck of the bus (Mainer's Mountaineers) ; Last scene of the Titanic (Frank Hutchison) ; Casey Jones (Skillet Lickers) ; The wreck of the westbound airliner (Fred Pendleton) ; The Titanic (Ernest Stoneman) ; When that great ship went down (William & Versey Smith) -- Disc 2, Man v. nature. The 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 (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, part 1 ; High water everywhere, part 2 (Charlie Patton) ; Ryecove cyclone (Martin & Roberts) ; McBeth mine explosion (Cap, Andy & Flip) ; Dry well blues (Charlie Patton) ; Baltimore fire (Charlie Poole) ; Tennessee tornado (Uncle Dave Macon) ; Dry spell blues, part 2 (Son House) ; The Santa Barbara earthquake (Green Bailey) ; The death of Floyd Collins (Vernon Dalhart) ; The Porto Rico storm (Carson Robison Trio) ; Boll weavil (W.A. Lindsey & Alvin Condor) ; The flood of 1927 (Elders McIntorsh & Edwards) -- Disc 3, Man v. man. Peddler and his wife (Hayes Shepherd) ; The little grave in Georgia (Earl Johnson) ; Kenney Wagner's surrender (Ernest Stoneman) ; Henry Clay Beattie (Kelly Harrell) ; The 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, part 1 ; Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, part 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) ; The story of Freda Bolt (Floyd County Ramblers) ; Pretty Polly (John Hammond) ; Fingerprints upon the windowpane (Bob Miller) ; The Bluefield murder (Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers) ; Frankie Silvers (Ashley & Foster) ; Fate of Rhoda Sweeten (Wilmer Watts) ; Dupree blues (Willie Walker) ; Poor Ellen Smith (Dykes Magic City Trio).
Various performers.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Old-Timey Dark Humor submitted by Meginator on August 31, 2019, 9:55pm For all of their dark subject matter, some of these songs can be surprisingly pleasant to listen to, at least until you catch the lyrical content. The predominant musical influence here is, somewhat unsurprisingly, the blues, a natural fit for the singers’ storytelling ambitions, though a lot of tracks also incorporate other early U.S. folk traditions. Despite the decidedly depressing subjects, many of these songs are shot through with humor, mostly in the form of irony. This isn’t exactly an uplifting compilation, but it definitely represents an interesting narrative musical tradition and offers insight into the ways that tragedy can become the basis for art.