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“The Butcher Boy” / “The Railroad Boy”

Sing Out! Posted on Jan 8, 2018 by Patrick BlackmanJan 9, 2018

Introduction: “It’s the butcher boy I love so well …” The title of today’s song suggests a narrative consistent with the stereotype of violent misogyny in our genre of choice.  Strictly speaking, this time that could lead to some inaccurate … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Buell Kazee, Butcher Boy, Butcher's Boy, Dave Van Ronk, Doc Watson, Elvis Costello, Go Dig My Grave, Harry Smith, In London City, Jean Ritchie, Kelly Harrell, Natalie Merchant, Roscoe Holcomb, The Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, Vernon Dalhart

“When that great ship went down”: A Titanic Playlist, Part 1

Sing Out! Posted on Jun 5, 2017 by Ken BiggerJun 5, 2017

“The way the band kept playing was a noble thing. I heard them first while still we were working wireless, when there was a ragtime tune for us, and the last I saw of the band, when I was floating … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Anthology of American Folk Music, Blind Willie Johnson, Charlie Louvin, disaster songs, Harry Smith, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Roy Acuff, Rudy Ray Moore, The Carter Family, The Dixon Brothers, The Gourds, Titanic, toast tradition, William and Versey Smith, Woody Guthrie

Digging for Clues in the Fatal Flower Garden

Sing Out! Posted on Mar 9, 2015 by Steven L. JonesMar 12, 2015

“Fatal Flower Garden,” recorded in 1929 by Nelstone’s Hawaiians, is only the second of eighty-four songs on Harry Smith’s epochal Anthology of American Folk Music – a collection justly celebrated in some macabre corners (mine, for instance) for its songs … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged A.L. Lloyd, Americana, Andrew Bird, Anthology of American Folk Music, Brooke La Ruche, Child Ballads, Fatal Flower Garden, Francis James Child, Harry Smith, Hubert Nelson, James D. Touchstone, Little Saint Hugh, Nelstone’s Hawaiians, Sir Hugh, Steeleye Span, Val Lewton

“Willie Moore”

Sing Out! Posted on Jul 1, 2013 by Patrick BlackmanJul 1, 2015

Leonard Rutherford (fiddle) and Dick Burnett (banjo) – Theirs is the earliest known recording of “Willie Moore” Introduction One thing I find about murder ballads in my own life is that I often remember the first time and place I … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Dick Burnett, Doc Watson, Happy Traum, Harry Smith, Joan Baez, Leonard Rutherford, Vance Randolph, Willie Moore

Hang down your head, Tom Dooley

Sing Out! Posted on Jun 12, 2013 by Ken BiggerJan 7, 2015

G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter [This is the second post this week on “Tom Dooley.” The first post gives the basics of the underlying story.] Hardly a fiddler or a banjo picker in our county… “I’ll tell you all Verlee and I … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Carolina Chocolate Drops, Frank Proffitt, Frankie and Johnny, G.B. Grayson, Harry Smith, Henry Whitter, Knoxville Girl, Omie Wise, The Kingston Trio, The Louvin Brothers, Tom Dooley

Seeking resolution

Sing Out! Posted on Jan 10, 2012 by Ken BiggerJan 5, 2015

Elvis Costello appeared five or six years ago as part of “The Harry Smith Project,” a musical renewal of the songs collected by Smith in the Anthology of American Folk Music, providing his proposed resolution of the Omie Wise tale. … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Anthology of American Folk Music, Elvis Costello, Harry Smith, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Omie Wise

Who writes “The Ballad of Nancy and Henry”?

Sing Out! Posted on Jan 10, 2012 by Ken BiggerJan 5, 2015

Harry Smith’s Anthology incorporated his somewhat idiosyncratic, news-brief style summaries for the songs he included.  The brief on “Ommie Wise” reads as follows:   GREEDY GIRL GOES TO ADAMS SPRING WITH LIAR; LIVES JUST LONG ENOUGH TO REGRET IT   … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged Anna Domino, Anthology of American Folk Music, G.B. Grayson, Harry Smith, Omie Wise

Omie Wise

Sing Out! Posted on Jan 9, 2012 by Ken BiggerJan 5, 2015

This week’s installment is a decidedly American contribution to the genre, and one not  completely shrouded in the mists of history, but only partly so. The events of “Omie Wise” can be pinned down to a known historical event—the drowning … Continue reading →

Posted in Murder Ballad Monday | Tagged American, Anna Domino, Doc Watson, Doug Wallin, Harry Smith, North Carolina, Omie Wise, Tom Dooley

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