Compilation
People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938
2007

CD 1: Man vs. Machine
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Titanic Blues 3:14
2 Wreck of the Old '97 2:54
3 Bill Wilson 3:22
4 The Crash of the Akron 3:32
5 The Fate of Talmadge Osborne 3:06
6 El Mole Rachmim (Für Titanik) 3:31
7 The Wreck of the Virginian 2:60
8 Fate of Will Rogers & Wiley Post 3:18
9 Down With the Old Canoe 2:53
10 Wreck of Number 52 3:17
11 Kassie Jones, Part 1 3:08
12 Kassie Jones, Part 2 3:04
13 The Brave Engineer 3:16
14 The Sinking of the Titanic 3:46
15 Fate of Chris Lively and Wife 3:26
16 Wreck on the Mountain Road 2:37
17 The Unfortunate Brakeman 2:26
18 Altoona Freight Wreck 2:38
19 The Fatal Wreck of the Bus 2:49
20 Last Scene of the Titanic 3:30
21 Casey Jones 2:49
22 The Wreck of the Westbound Airliner 2:59
23 The Titanic 3:14
24 When That Great Ship Went Down 2:57
Total time 74:45
CD 2: Man vs. Nature
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 The Story of the Mighty Mississippi 3:08
2 Mississippi Heavy Water Blues 3:04
3 Dixie Boll Weevil 2:60
4 Mississippi Boweavil 3:06
5 Ohio Prison Fire 3:27
6 Memphis Flu 3:04
7 Explosion in the Fairmount Mine 3:22
8 Storm That Struck Miami 3:02
9 When the Levee Breaks 3:13
10 Alabama Flood 3:18
11 Burning of the Cleveland School 3:03
12 High Water Everywhere, Part 1 3:08
13 High Water Everywhere, Part 2 3:06
14 Ryecove Cyclone 3:03
15 McBeth Mine Explosion 2:53
16 Dry Well Blues 3:20
17 Baltimore Fire 3:12
18 Tennessee Tornado 3:15
19 Dry Spell Blues, Part 2 3:14
20 The Santa Barbara Earthquake 2:57
21 The Death of Floyd Collins 3:29
22 The Porto Rico Storm 2:34
23 Boll Weavil 2:60
24 The Flood of 1927 3:14
Total time 75:14
CD 3: Man vs. Man (and Woman Too)
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Peddler and His Wife 3:24
2 The Little Grave in Georgia 3:07
3 Kenny Wagner's Surrender 2:24
4 Henry Clay Beattie 3:09
5 The Murder of the Lawson Family 3:27
6 Naomi Wise 2:54
7 Railroad Bill 2:60
8 Frankie 3:03
9 Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 1 3:00
10 Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 2 3:05
11 Lanse des Belaires 2:51
12 Darling Cora 3:53
13 Billy Lyons and Stack O'Lee 2:37
14 Tom Dooley 3:11
15 The Story of Freda Bolt 3:37
16 Purty Polly 3:11
17 Fingerprints Upon the Windowpane 3:00
18 The Bluefield Murder 3:08
19 Frankie Silvers 3:06
20 Fate of Rhoda Sweeten 3:11
21 Dupree Blues 3:30
22 Poor Ellen Smith 3:13
Total time 69:01



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Tompkins Square 856075001875
2007, United States, English, 3×CD

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