People take warning! : murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938.

Call Number

• COMPACT DISC COUNTRY/FOLK (CEN)

Performers

Various performers.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Tompkins Square, p2007.

Physical Description

3 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes

Compact discs.

Originally released on 78 rpm discs.

Program notes by Christopher C. King, Henry "Hank" Sapoznik, and Tom Waits, and some lyrics (48 p. : ill.) bound in container.

Contents

• Titanic blues Wreck of the Old 97 Bill Wilson The crash of the Akron The fate of Talmadge Osborne El mole rachmim (für Titanik) The wreck of the Virginian Fate of Will Rogers & Wiley Post Down with the old canoe Wreck of Number 52 Kassie Jones part 1 ; Kassie Jones part 2 The brave engineer The sinking of the Titanic Fate of Chris Lively and wife Wreck on the mountain road The unfortunate brakeman Altoona freight wreck The fatal wreck of the bus Last scene of the Titanic Casey Jones The wreck of the westbound airliner The Titanic When that great ship went down

• The story of the mighty Mississippi Mississippi heavy water blues Dixie boll weevil Mississippi boweavil Ohio prison fire Memphis flu Explosion in the Fairmount Mine Storm that struck Miami When the levee breaks Alabama flood Burning of the Cleveland School High water everywhere, part 1 ; High water everywhere, part 2 Ryecove cyclone McBeth mine explosion Dry well blues Baltimore fire Tennessee tornado Dry spell blues, part 2 The Santa Barbara earthquake The death of Floyd Collins The Porto Rico storm Boll weavil The flood of 1927

• Peddler and his wife The little grave in Georgia Kenney Wagner's surrender Henry Clay Beattie The murder of the Lawson Family Naomi Wise Railroad Bill Frankie Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, part 1 ; Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, part 2 Lanse des belaires Darling Cora Billy Lyons and Stack O' Lee Tom Dooley The story of Freda Bolt Pretty Polly Fingerprints upon the windowpane The Bluefield murder Frankie Silvers Fate of Rhoda Sweeten Dupree blues Poor Ellen Smith