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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Tompkins Square
Category: Music
List Price: $51.98
Buy New: $37.13
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 7027
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: 1875
UPC: 856075001875
EAN: 0856075001875
ASIN: B000ULQV20
Release Date: September 25, 2007
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Disc 1
| • | 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 (Fuer Titanik) Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt | | • | The Wreck Of the Virginian Alfred Reed | | • | Fate of Will Rogers & Wiley Post Bill Cox | | • | Down With The Old Canoe Dixon Brothers | | • | Wreck Of Number 52 Cliff Carlisle | | • | Kassie Jones Part 1 Furry Lewis | | • | 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
| • | 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 Charlie Patton | | • | 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
| • | 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 Bill Cox | | • | 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 |
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Album Description
"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 forgotten local murders or catastrophes, these 70 recordings - over 30 never before reissued - are audio messages in a bottle reflecting a lost world where age old ballads rubbed up against songs inspired by the day's headlines. Produced and annotated by the Grammy winning team of Christopher King and Henry "Hank" Sapoznik with an introduction by Tom Waits, the accompanying 48-page three-CD anthology designed by Grammy award winning Susan Archie brims with many eye-popping historic images never before reproduced.
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| Customer Reviews:
Remember Us April 25, 2008
Mark Schiff (USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I drive down the road in my 2006 Honda Accord and have this collection playing on my six changer cd player I feel like it's 1922 in Alabama and I'm in my Ford jalopy listening to some great radio station from the past. These songs not only tell stories of the past they make you feel for people you have never met. It's a great collection.
love tose old songs from my generation April 7, 2008
Billy Isbell (Old Dominion, USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Received these cds just before a trip from VA to TX.
Took me over 200 miles of happy interstate driving
(with nary a disaster)!
Brilliant & Creative Historical Collection February 19, 2008
ilovemykids (Boston)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
On a recommendation from a friend, I picked this up even though I only own the Harry Smith Anthology and really no other reissue collections. I'm now sold! This is at least on the same level as the Harry Smith collection if not much better. This set is a thoughtfully constructed, almost visionary collection of pre-1938 recordings, with each one of the recordings demonstrating something lost in the current "musical vocabulary" that is being put out now. Besides sounding fantastic and looking great, the package also includes deeply revealing annotations and notes by Hank Sapoznik, Christopher King and Tom Waits. I've listened to the set for hours and read and re-read the notes and tried to take in all the compelling graphics. It is indeed a singular experience and a true artistic success.
 repetative,but interesting February 15, 2008
P. NOWELL
6 out of 27 found this review helpful
An interesting peak into early 20th century culture.The packaging is top notch.As for the music,it sounds like 20 or 30 versions of the same song,especially given the primitive recording techinques.I might suggest to Tompkins Square they re-record these song using modern artists ie Steve Earle,Dwight Yokum etc.Sort of like the Phil Alvin "Lost Songs"lp from 1985.
In short ,historically interesting,musically tedious.
Wow. Just. Wow. December 24, 2007
Polarhound
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I can not think of a better set to have received as a Christmas gift. From Waits' introduction through the transfer quality of the audio all the way down to the panoramic pictures in the book, this set is a must-have for any serious music collector or lover.
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