This week on the program, we turn our attention to songs about bandits and outlaws who have often been the subjects of folk music since the beginning of singing and telling tales. We’ll hear music from Norman Blake, Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves, Addie Graham, Ry Cooder, Tim Hardin, Tom Russell and many more. Ballads about scoundrels and thieves … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Butch Thompson & Pat Donohue / “A Minor Fantasy” / Vicksburg Blues / Red House
Norman Blake / “Billy Gray” / Blind Dog / Rounder
Greg Hooven String Band / “Darling Corey” / The Harry Smith Connection / Smithsonian-Folkways
Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves / “Red Haired Becky” / I Have Known Women / Strictly Country
The Byrds / “Pretty Boy Floyd” / Sweetheart of the Rodeo / Columbia

Guy Clark / “The Last Gunfighter Ballad” / Texas Cookin’ / Sugar Hill
The MacAbre Brothers / “Otto Wood” / Traditional Murder Ballads / Roane
Addie Graham / “Omie Wise” / Been a Long Time Traveling / June Appal
Tim Hardin / “Lady Came from Baltimore” / Live in Concert / Polydor
Paul Siebel / “Jack-Knife Gypsy” / Jack-Knife Gypsy / Elektra
Butch Thompson & Pat Donohue / “Yancey Blues” / Vicksburg Blues / Red House

Ry Cooder / “Jesse James” / The Long Riders / Warner Brothers
Ry Cooder / “Jesse James” / The Long Riders / Warner Brothers
Tom Russell / “Tonight We Ride” / Old Songs Yet to Sing / Frontera
Susan Pepper / “Tom Dooley” / Hollerin’ Girl / Ballad
Hamper McBee / “John Hardy” / Cumberland Moonshiner / Spring Fed
The Red Clay Ramblers / “Run Sister Run” / A Lie of the Mind / Sugar Hill
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways