Small House of Everything

Small House of Everything

Friday, August 5, 2011

MURDER BALLADS AND DISASTER SONGS

I came across this compilation by such artists as The Birmingham Jug Band, Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie, Clarence Ashley (doing Naomi Wise), and United Steel Workers of Montreal.  The songs cover the gamut from Tom Dooley to the Spanish Armada.

http://www.archive.org/details/MurderBalladsAndDisasterSongs

But if you're going to include disaster songs, you really should include Mighty Day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsWUI0ZwJxA

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