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GUEST,Scoville at scanner	Let's talk about murder ballads. (100* d)	RE: Let's talk about murder ballads.	09 May 07
The Twa Sisters/Wind & Rain/Barkshire Tragedy family. There's also "the Black-Haired Lass", in which the suitor is killed by the girl's brothers but comes back as a ghost to tell her about her family's treachery. The recording I have is Bob & Evelyne Beers. "Boglin's Smuggling Men" is an Illinois variant on a UK song in which a woman lures a young man into the woods, where he is robbed and killed. I've got it on an Allen Street String Band tape that I believe is no longer available, but I'm sure it's on other recordings, too. "Pretty Polly". "Jesse James" (all of them), among lots of other outlaw ballads. "Captain Kidd". New "trad-esque" songs could include Gillian Welch's "Caleb Meyer" and "One Morning", and there are lots of country songs that extend the genre into modern times.

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