| Various Artists / People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 |
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| Album: | People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Jul 2011 | |
| Label: | Tompkins Square | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2012-01-16 | Pull Date: | 2012-03-19 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 4 | Jan 22 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 13, 2023: | Traditions The Titanic | 4. | Dec 01, 2017: | Traditions Wreck Of The Old 97 [Riley Puckett] | |
| 2. | May 18, 2018: | Traditions Lanse Des Belaires | 5. | Mar 01, 2012: | The Songsmith Show Frankie | |
| 3. | Apr 20, 2018: | Traditions Last Scene Of The Titanic, The Fatal Wreck Of The Bus | 6. | Jan 21, 2012: | Catharsis Frankie Silvers |
| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2012-01-17 | ||
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People Take Warning [Disc 1] - Man Vs. Machine [COLL] GENERAL VARIOUS ARTISTS Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938 American Roots music, Long gone sounds & voices when ballads told the recent news. some songs have pops & clicks. 1: 3:14 slow to mid, male voc, twin guitars about the Titanic 2: 2:54 slow to mid, male voc, train wreck 3: 3:22 mid to slightly faster, jug band with harmonica, retooling of John Henry 4: 3:32 slow, written day after crash of USS Akron, slow to mid, fiddle 5: 3:06 mid to slightly faster, accident trying to hop a freight train 6: 3:31 a cantor sings about the Jewish loss of life on the Titanic, slow 7: 3:00 slow, fiddle "come all ye" style vocal railroad collision 8: 3:18 slow to mid, about Will Rogers & Willey Post plane crash in Alaska 9: 2:53 two brothers sing about the Titanic 25 years later. slow to mid 10: 3:17 slide guitar, male voc. about train derailment, slow ****11: 3:08 mid tempo, great guitar & male vocal, Kassie Jones Part 1 ****12: 3:04 mid tempo, great guitar & male vocal, Kassie Jones Part 2 13: 3:16 mid to slightly faster, guitar & harmonica sung by Kentucky Carver family 14: 3:49 slow to mid, Victorian sentimentality about the Titantic, slow to mid 15: 3:26 fiddle & guitar, almost a PSA "look both ways at railroad crossings", slow 16: 2:37 "Wreck Of The Old 97" put to a truck driving song, slow to mid 17: 2:26 mid tempo song about railroad brakeman 18: 2:38 slow, guitar, derailed train song 19: 2:49 slow, about Greyhound bus & open drawbridge ***20: 3:30 mid to faster, Titanic narrative 21: 2:49 mid to slightly faster, Casey Jones, fiddle & guitar 22: 2:59 mid to faster, fiddle & guitar, about plane cash that killed Knute Rockne 23: 3:14 mid tempo, Titanic song guitar autoharp & harmonica *****24: 2:57 mid tempo, tambourine & guitar, gospel/spiritual, wailing vocal People Take Warning [Disc 2] - Man Vs. Nature [COLL] GENERAL 1: 3:08 mid tempo, guitar, about flooding of the Mississippi ****2: 3:04 12 string guitar, narrative & blues verses, slow 3: 3:00 crossed tune fiddle, story about boll weevil, slow 4: 3:06 great lap steel guitar, about boll weevil, mid to faster 5: 3:27 slow, fiddle & guitar story about prison fire ***6: 3:04 fast rocking gospel/spiritual, wailing vocal about Memphis flu 7: 3:22 mid tempo, fiddle & guitar, mine explosion 8: 3:02 mid tempo, fiddle & guitar jagged waltz time, about Miami storm ***9: 3:13 mid to faster, male vocal guitar, Memphis Minnie guitar 1927 10: 3:18 slow, guitar & vocals, recorded while rescue efforts were underway during 1929 Alabama flood 11: 3:03 mid to faster, guitar & male vocals, about school fire ***12: 3:07 foot stomping & guitar, raspy vocal on 1927 Mississippi flood part 1 ***13: 3:06 foot stomping & guitar, raspy vocal on 1927 Mississippi flood part 2 14: 3:03 slow to mid, guitar, cyclone destroys a schoolhouse 15: 2:53 slow to mid, banjo & guitar, mine disaster 16: 3:20 slow, guitars & wailing vocal about drought 17: 3:12 mid to faster, guitar & vocal, Baltimore fire 18: 3:15 mid to faster, guitar, about Tennessee tornado ***19: 3:14 lots of noise, GREAT vocal by Son house, guitar, slow ***20: 2:57 slow, fiddle & guitar, about 1928 Santa Barbara Earthquake 21: 3:29 slow to mid, guitar, death of Floyd Collins 22: 2:34 slow, fiddle & guitar, Puerto Rico hurricane ***23: 3:00 mid to faster, guitar, harmonica, about boll weevil ***24: 3:14 gospel/spiritual, guitar, flood of 1927 People Take Warning [Disc 3] Man Vs. Man (And Women, Too) 1: 3:24 fast banjo picking & vocal 2: 3:07 slow banjo & vocal 3: 2:24 slow to mid 4: 3:09 slow, fiddle & guitar 5: 3:27 slow guitar 6: 2:54 clawhammer banjo playing, vocal, mid to faster 7: 3:00 mid to faster, guitar and great vocal ****8: 3:03 mid to faster "Frankie & Johnny", guitar & fiddle 9: 3:00 mid tempo,guitar & harmonica, Lindbergh kidnapping trial Part 1 10: 3:05 mid tempo,guitar & harmonica, Lindbergh kidnapping trial Part 2 ***11: 2:51 Cajun fiddlers, a ballad ****12: 3:53 two finger banjo picking & vocal ****13: 2:37 mid tempo "Stack O' Lee" ****14: 3:11 mid tempo fiddle & guitar "Tom Dooley" 15: 3:37 waltz time strumming & vocal 16: 3:11 fast banjo & vocal 17: 3:00 slow about Lindbergh kidnapping 18: 3:08 mid tempo fiddle, banjo, guitar & vocals 19: 3:06 slow, fiddle, great harmonica & vocal 20: 3:11 waltz time strumming & vocal ****21: 3:30 nice finger picking guitar, vocal ****22: 3:13 guitar & fiddle with vocals | ||
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