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Murder at the Dead Show – Encore

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 31, 2012 by Patrick BlackmanJan 5, 2015

Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Grateful Dead – by Irving Penn, 1967 Janis Joplin – James Gurley – Ron McKernan – Jerry Garcia (This week’s first set.)    (This week’s second set.) When I look at portraits from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Bird Song, Death Don't Have No Mercy, Grateful Dead, Henry Fuseli, Janis Joplin, Rev. Gary Davis, Robert Hunter

Murder at the Dead Show – Second Set

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 28, 2012 by Patrick BlackmanJan 5, 2015

Concert Poster, Oakland Coliseum – Peter Barsotti, 12/31/91 I recently wrote about “Jack Straw” as the Grateful Dead’s only true murder ballad.  That effort spurred me to begin this week with a broader look at the act of murder in the Dead’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Black Peter, Box of Rain, Cassidy, Dire Wolf, Fennario, Grateful Dead, John Perry Barlow, Peggy-O, Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter

VanHoy Revives Union Grove Fiddler’s Convention

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 26, 2012 by Matt HengeveldMar 26, 2012

The Union Grove Old Time Fiddler’s Convention was started by H.P. VanHoy as a way to help raise funds to support North Carolina’s Union Grove School in 1924.  This charity fiddle contest grew exponentially, attracting some of the top bluegrass … Continue reading →

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Murder at the Dead Show – First Set

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 26, 2012 by Patrick BlackmanJan 5, 2015

“Listening for the secret, searching for the sound…” I am one of those people who early in life, somewhere around age four, started grappling with the existential ‘problem’ of death.  I don’t know why. Maybe it was because my grandmother … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Cold Rain and Snow, Cryptical Envelopment, Dupree's Diamond Blues, El Paso, Grateful Dead, Me and My Uncle, Mexicali Blues, Robert Hunter, Stagger Lee, The Waybacks

I started making plans to kill my own kind…

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 24, 2012 by S. GeeJan 5, 2015

As I mentioned in my first post, “Ballad of Hollis Brown” was presented and received as a sad story about something that happened to a man, not about what that man did to six other people. The song brings us … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Bob Dylan, Country Death Song, Gordon Gano, The Ballad of Hollis Brown, Violent Femmes

The limits of empathy

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 23, 2012 by S. GeeApr 14, 2015

The Times They Are a’Changin’ included numerous songs that addressed current events and real crimes. “Only a Pawn in their Game” deals with the assassination of civil rights worker Medgar Evers by Byron De La Beckwith; “The Lonesome Death of … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Bob Dylan, North Country Blues, Only a Pawn in Their Game, The Ballad of Hollis Brown, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

Nobody Sings Dylan like Dylan

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 21, 2012 by S. GeeApr 14, 2015

At the end of this week, I’ll return to the key issues that Dylan addresses in “The Ballad of Hollis Brown.” As part of that, I’ll look at one of if not the worst versions of the song ever sung … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Bob Dylan, Dolbro Dan, Entombed, Hans Theessink, Leon Russell, Nazareth, Old Blind Dogs, Pretty Polly, Stone the Crows, The Ballad of Hollis Brown, The Neville Brothers, The Stooges

The Ballad of Hollis Brown

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 19, 2012 by Ken BiggerJan 5, 2015

“Ex-Farm Family, now on WPA.” Photo credit: Dorothea Lange. Farm Security Administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Archives. In regard to “Fair Ellender” – the subject of this blog’s first post – I suggested that the Brown Girl’s murderous act … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Rise Against, The Ballad of Hollis Brown

Cut down a man in cold blood…

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 16, 2012 by Patrick BlackmanJul 22, 2016

“None recover, they are just replaced.”  – Robert Hunter, 1995 Note: This is Part 3 of a three part series.  See also Part 1 and Part 2. Introduction At the free concert at Altamont Speedway on December 6, 1969, an eighteen … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Altamont, Bob Weir, Grateful Dead, Jack Straw, Jerry Garcia, John Steinbeck, Mason's Children, Meredith Hunter, New Speedway Boogie, Robert Hunter

There ain’t a winner in this game…

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 13, 2012 by Patrick BlackmanJul 17, 2016

The last 10 minutes of the 1939 version of Of Mice and Men Note: this is Part 2 of a three part series.  See also Part 1 and Part 3. Introduction Bob Weir’s revelation that John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Altamont, Bob Weir, Burgess Meredith, Gary Sinise, Hal Roach, Jack Straw, John Malkovich, John Steinbeck, Lon Chaney Jr., Of Mice and Men, Robert Hunter, Sonoran Desert

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