Various Artists - People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 [Digipak]

Artist:

Various Artists

UPC:

894807002509

Description:

Liner Note Author: Henry Sapoznik.
Editor: Matt Laferty.
Introduction by: Tom Waits.
Imagine Harry Smith`s famed ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC with a chip on its shoulder and you`ll have an entry point to the three-disc set PEOPLE TAKE WARNING. Fabulously appointed with fascinating, detailed notes and a handsome booklet, PTW houses a bounty of Depression-era folk, blues, and country tracks. Though some of the artists (Charlie Patton, Son House) are quite famous, there`s a host of more esoteric (but equally powerful) performers known mostly to folk/blues cultists. All this archival talent is assembled under the thematic umbrella of calamity. The set is broken up into songs of natural disaster, murder, and human endeavors gone fatally awry. In the early 21st century, the cumulative apocalyptic feel of these songs from some seven decades ago has an eerie resonance.

Track Listing:

DISC 1: MAN V MACHINE:

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

DISC 2: MAN V NATURE:

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

DISC 3: MAN V MAN:

1. Peddler and His Wife - Hayes Shepherd
2. Little Grave in Georgia, The - Earl Johnson
3. Kenney Wagner`s Surrender - Ernest V. Stoneman/Kahle Brewer
4. Henry Clay Beattie - Kelly Harrell
5. Murder of the Lawson Family - The Carolina Buddies
6. Naomi Wise - Clarence Ashley
7. Railroad Bill - Will Bennett
8. Frankie - Dykes Magic City Trio
9. Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann - Bill Cox
10. Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann - 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 & Whitter
15. Story of Freda Bolt, The - Floyd County Ramblers
16. Pretty Polly - John Hammond
17. Fingerprints Upon the Windowpane - Bob Miller
18. Bluefield Murder - Roy Harver/North Carolina Ramblers
19. Frankie Silvers - Ashley & Foster
20. Fate of Rhoda Sweeten - Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles
21. Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
22. Poor Ellen Smith - Dykes Magic City Trio

Album Information

Release Date:

11/02/2010

Type:

Collection

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Delta

Label:

Tompkins Square

Producer:

Christopher C. King; Henry Sapoznik

Catalog Number:

00046837

Original Release Year:

2007

# of Discs:

3

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

218 : 28

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