'Early Songs of Angst and Disaster'

Subject: 'Early Songs of Angst and Disaster'
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 15 Nov 07 - 02:20 PM

As reviewed on Musical Traditions:

Doom and Gloom
Early songs of Angst and Disaster 1927-1945
Trikont US-0364

Blind Willie Johnson: God Moves on the Water;
Roy Acuff And His Crazy Tennesseeans: Wreck on the Highway;
Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers: Baltimore Fire;
Big Bill Broonzy: Southern Flood Blues;
Lulu Belle & Scotty: That Crazy War;
William And Versey Smith: When That Great Ship Went Down;
Karl And Harty: When the Atom Bomb Fell;
G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter: He's Coming To Us Dead;
Bessie Smith: Back-Water Blues;
Joe Williams: Providence Help the Poor People;
The Carter Family: The Dying Soldier;
Cofer Brothers: The Great Ship Went Down;
Kansas Joe And Memphis Minnie: When the Levee Breaks;
Blind Alfred Reed: Explosion in the Fairmont Mines;
Charley Patton: High Water Everywhere - Part I;
The Dixon Brothers: School House Fire;
Gid Tanner & His Skillet- Lickers with Riley Puckett & Clayton McMichen: The Wreck of the Southern Old '97 ;
Casey Bill Weldon: Flood Water Blues;
The Allen Brothers: Jake Walk Blues;
Richard ("Rabbit") Brown: Sinking of the Titanic;
Carolina Twins: Off to War I'm Going;
Cauley Family: Lumberton Wreck;
Asa Martin & James Roberts: Rycove Cyclone;
Blind Willie Johnson: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground.

Having sung the Carter Family's "Rye Cove", I'm curious as to how the Martin & Roberts song compares.

~ Becky in Tucson