Unfortunate Rake / Various
by Various Artists
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CD Details
- Released: 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Folkways Records
Tracks:
- 1.The Unfortunate Rake
- 2.The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime
- 3.The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime
- 4.Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime
- 5.The Bad Girl's Lament
- 6.One Morning in May
- 7.Bright Summer Morning
- 8.The Girl in the Dilger Case
- 9.The Cowboy's Lament
- 10.Streets of Laredo
- 11.St. James Hospital
- 12.Gambler's Blues
- 13.I Once Was a Carman - I Once Was a Carman in the Big Mountain Con
- 14.The Lineman's Hymn
- 15.The Wild Lumberjack
- 16.A Sun Valley Song
- 17.The Ballad of Bloody Thursday
- 18.Streets of Hamtramck
- 19.The Ballad of Sherman Wu
- 20.The Professor's Lament
Product Description:
The story is basically this: A soldier is dying, evidently of venereal disease he contracted from a young woman, and he requests a funeral. Hear how this story has been spun over centuries into a whole collection of similarly themed songs, the earliest possibly dating to 1790. In this recording we are essentially witnessing the evolution of the Anglo-Saxon ballad tradition.