1. Titanic Blues Hi Henry Brown & Charlie Jordan
2. Wreck Of the Old 97 Skillet Lickers
3. Bill Wilson Birmingham Jug Band
4. The Crash Of the Akron Bob Miller
5. The Fate of Talmadge Osborne Ernest Stoneman
6. El Mole Rachmim (Für Titanik) Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt
7. The Wreck Of the Virginian Alfred Reed
8. Fate of Will Rogers & Wiley Post Bill Cox
9. Down With The Old Canoe Dixon Brothers
10. Wreck Of Number 52 Cliff Carlisle
11. Kassie Jones Part 1 Furry Lewis
12. Kassie Jones Part 2 Furry Lewis
13. The Brave Engineer Carver Boys
14. The Sinking Of The Titanic Richard "Rabbit" Brown
15. Fate Of Chris Lively And Wife Blind Alfred Reed
16. Wreck On The Mountain Road Red Fox Chasers
17. The Unfortunate Brakeman Kentucky Ramblers
18. Altoona Freight Wreck Riley Puckett
19. The Fatal Wreck Of The Bus Mainer's Mountaineers
20. Last Scene Of the Titanic Frank Hutchison
21. Casey Jones Skillet Lickers
22. The Wreck Of The Westbound Airliner Fred Pendleton
23. The Titanic Ernest Stoneman
24. When That Great Ship Went Down William & Versey Smith
25. The Story of the Mighty Mississippi Ernest Stoneman
26. Mississippi Heavy Water Blues Robert Hicks
27. Dixie Boll Weevil Fiddlin' John Carson
28. Mississippi Boweavil Charlie Patton
29. Ohio Prison Fire Bob Miller
30. Memphis Flu Elder Curry
31. Explosion in the Fairmount Mine Blind Alfred Reed
32. Storm That Struck Miami Fiddlin' John Carson
33. When the Levee Breaks Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
34. Alabama Flood Andrew Jenkins
35. Burning of the Cleveland School J. H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies
36. High Water Everywhere, Part 1 Charlie Patton
37. High Water Everywhere, Part 2 Charlie Patton
38. Ryecove Cyclone Martin & Roberts
39. McBeth Mine Explosion Cap, Andy & Flip
40. Dry Well Blues Charlie Patton
41. Baltimore Fire Charlie Poole
42. Tennessee Tornado Uncle Dave Macon
43. Dry Spell Blues, Part 2 Son House
44. The Santa Barbara Earthquake Green Bailey
45. The Death of Floyd Collins Vernon Dalhart
46. The Porto Rico Storm Carson Robison Trio
47. Boll Weavil W. A. Lindsey & Alvin Condor
48. The Flood of 1927 Elders McIntorsh & Edwards
49. Peddler And His Wife Hayes Shepherd
50. The Little Grave in Georgia Earl Johnson
51. Kenney Wagner's Surrender Ernest Stoneman
52. Henry Clay Beattie Kelly Harrell
53. The Murder Of the Lawson Family Carolina Buddies
54. Naomi Wise Clarence Ashley
55. Railroad Bill Will Bennett
56. Frankie Dykes Magic City Trio
57. Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 1 Bill Cox
58. Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 2 Bill Cox
59. Lanse Des Belaires Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge
60. Darling Cora B.F. Shelton
61. Billy Lyons and Stack O' Lee Furry Lewis
62. Tom Dooley Grayson and Whitter
63. The Story of Freda Bolt Floyd County Ramblers
64. Pretty Polly John Hammond
65. Fingerprints Upon the Windowpane Bob Miller
66. The Bluefield Murder Roy Harvey & The North Carolina Ramblers
67. Frankie Silvers Ashley & Foster
68. Fate of Rhoda Sweeten Wilmer Watts
69. Dupree Blues Willie Walker
70. Poor Ellen Smith Dykes Magic City Trio
Album Description
"In the late 1920's and early 1930's, the Depression gripped the Nation. It was a time when songs were tools for living. A whole community would turn out to mourn the loss of a member and to sow their songs like seeds. This collection is a wild garden grown from those seeds."
- Tom Waits, from the Introduction Songs of death, destruction and disaster, recorded by black and white performers from the dawn of American roots recording are here, assembled together for the first time. Whether they document world-shattering events like the sinking of the Titanic or memorialize long forgotten local murders or catastrophes, these 70 recordings - over 30 never before reissued - are audio messages in a bottle reflecting a lost world where age old ballads rubbed up against songs inspired by the day's headlines. Produced and annotated by the Grammy winning team of Christopher King and Henry "Hank" Sapoznik with an introduction by Tom Waits, the accompanying 48-page three-CD anthology designed by Grammy award winning Susan Archie brims with many eye-popping historic images never before reproduced.
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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2007-09-25)
- Publisher: Tompkins Square
- Label: Tompkins Square
- Format: Box set
- Studio: Tompkins Square
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 10 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #6484
Avg. Customer Review:
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Remember Us 2008-04-25
Comment: When I drive down the road in my 2006 Honda Accord and have this collection playing on my six changer cd player I feel like it's 1922 in Alabama and I'm in my Ford jalopy listening to some great radio station from the past. These songs not only tell stories of the past they make you feel for people you have never met. It's a great collection.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: love tose old songs from my generation 2008-04-07
Comment: Received these cds just before a trip from VA to TX.
Took me over 200 miles of happy interstate driving
(with nary a disaster)!
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Brilliant & Creative Historical Collection 2008-02-19
Comment: On a recommendation from a friend, I picked this up even though I only own the Harry Smith Anthology and really no other reissue collections. I'm now sold! This is at least on the same level as the Harry Smith collection if not much better. This set is a thoughtfully constructed, almost visionary collection of pre-1938 recordings, with each one of the recordings demonstrating something lost in the current "musical vocabulary" that is being put out now. Besides sounding fantastic and looking great, the package also includes deeply revealing annotations and notes by Hank Sapoznik, Christopher King and Tom Waits. I've listened to the set for hours and read and re-read the notes and tried to take in all the compelling graphics. It is indeed a singular experience and a true artistic success.
6 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: repetative,but interesting 2008-02-15
Comment: An interesting peak into early 20th century culture.The packaging is top notch.As for the music,it sounds like 20 or 30 versions of the same song,especially given the primitive recording techinques.I might suggest to Tompkins Square they re-record these song using modern artists ie Steve Earle,Dwight Yokum etc.Sort of like the Phil Alvin "Lost Songs"lp from 1985.
In short ,historically interesting,musically tedious.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wow. Just. Wow. 2007-12-24
Comment: I can not think of a better set to have received as a Christmas gift. From Waits' introduction through the transfer quality of the audio all the way down to the panoramic pictures in the book, this set is a must-have for any serious music collector or lover.
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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
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