Various Artists / Bloody War Songs 1924-1939
Album: Bloody War Songs 1924-1939   Collection:General
Artist:Various Artists   Added:Oct 2010
Label:Tompkins Square  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-11-06 Pull Date: 2012-01-08
Week Ending: Dec 4 Nov 13
Airplays: 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 27, 2011: ThermoNuclear Bar
Uncle Sam And The Kaiser
2. Nov 09, 2011: Buford J. Sharkley's Themeless Escapades
Bloody War

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2011-11-06
Folk Songs about warfare from the 1920s & 1930s. Covering the Civil War, Spanish American and WW1. Compiled from the original 78 recordings. A portion of the proceeds go to IAVA (Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America)
1: 2:31 vocal & guitar, slow
****2: 3:13 vocal, steel guitar, mid tempo, comic misfortunes of a simple country boy
***3: 3:11 slow, vocal, violin, piano, covered by the Carter Family in the 1930s
****4: 2:53 vocal & guitar, slow
****5: 3:22 vocal & steel guitar with yodeling, mid tempo
***6: 3:19 vocal, fiddle, banjo & guitar, fast
***7: 3:03 harmonica & guitar, fast Instrumental, "Long Way To Tipperary"
****8: 4:13 slow banjo strumming and vocal then banjo, fiddle & guitar medley of Dixie, Swanee River etc. mid tempo
9: 2:44 vocal duet, steel guitar, guitars, mid tempo
****10: 2:59 fast fiddling "Johnnie, Get Your Gun"
11: 2:55 vocal & harmonica, good tune but scratchy.
12: 2:58 vocal, fiddle & guitar
***13: 3:00 vocal with nice steel guitar
14: 2:40 vocal, banjo & guitars
****15: 2:25 male & female duet, guitar & tambourine D  Farrell 11/2011

Track Listing
 ArtistTrack Name
1. Zeke Morris Just As The Sun Went Down
2. Jimmy Yates' Boll Weevils Bloody War
3. Buell Kazee The Faded Coat Of Blue
4. Coley Jones Army Mule In No Man's Land
5. Tom Darby & Jimmy Tarlton The Rainbow Division
6. Red Patterson's Piedmont Log Rollers The Battleship Of Maine
7. Frank Hutchinson Long Way To Tipperary
8. Fiddlin' John Carson And His Dixie Reelers Dixie Division
9. Dixon Brothers The Old Vacant Chair
10. Earl Johnson & His Clodhoppers Johnnie, Get Your Gun
11. Ernest V. Stoneman And His Dixie Mountaineers Uncle Sam And The Kaiser
12. G. B. Grayson And Henry Whittier He Is Coming To Us Dead
13. Tom Darby & Jimmy Tarlton Captain Won't You Let Me Go Home
14. Wade Mainer & Sons Of The Mountaineers Not A Word Of That Be Said
15. William & Versey Smith Everybody Help The Boys Come Home