Crime & Punishment

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Themed two CD set with Disc One devoted to songs about crime and Disc Two containing songs about punishment. Compiled and annotated by celebrated journalist Kris Needs, this set draws on five decades of great American music, including blues (John Lee Hooker, Blind Willie McTell), country (The Louvin Brothers, Johnny Cash) and folk (Odetta, Woody Guthrie).

REZENSION
'This isn't the first compilation to focus on murder and mayhem, but it's certainly one of the best' --Music Week

'An all star cast' 5 Stars --Evening Standard

'Superbly selected, epic, eye opening compilation' 9/10 --Vive Le Rock

Disc 1
1: I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
2: Worrying Blues - Macon Ed & Tampa Joe
3: Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
4: Murder's Gonna Be My Crime - Sippie Wallace
5: The Murder of the Lawson Family - Carolina Buddies
6: Lord Randall, My Son - Josh White
7: Duncan and Brady - Dave Van Ronk
8: Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash
9: I'm Gonna Kill That Woman - Texas Slim
10: I'm Gonna Cut Your Head Mama - Homer Harris
11: Your Funeral and My Trial - Sonny Boy Williamson
12: Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
13: Down in the Willow Garden - The Everly Brothers
14: Knoxville Girl - The Louvin Brothers
15: Henry Lee - Dick Justice
16: Dying Capshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell
17: John Hardy - Lead Belly
18: Star Bootlegger - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
19: Down On the Banks of the Ohio - The Blue Sky Boys
20: The Killer - Cisco Houston
21: Gangster's Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
22: Prison Bound Blues - Leroy Carr
23: High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
24: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Paul Robeson
25: Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday

Disc 2
1: How I Got in the Penitentiary - Bama
2: Early in the Mornin' - 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye & Hard Hair
3: Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
4: DeKalb Chain Gang - Fred McMullen
5: Buggy Jail House Blues - Lillie Mae
6: Murder in the First Degree - Victoria Spivey
7: Workhouse Blues - Mattie May Thomas
8: He's in the Jailhouse Now - The Memphis Sheiks
9: I Fought the Law - The Crickets
10: Okie's in the Pokie - Jimmy Patton
11: The Last Meal - Hurricane Harry
12: It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad - 22 & Group
13: Jail House Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
14: Penitentiary Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
15: Shelby County Workhouse Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern
16: Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
17: Ball and Chain Blues - Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill
18: Kenny Wagner's Surrender - Ernest Stoneman
19: Tom Dooley - The New Lost City Ramblers
20: The Gallows Pole - Odetta
21: Slip Knot - Woody Guthrie
22: Old Dollar Mamie - 22 & Group
23: Tangle Eye Blues - Tangle Eye
24: Big Mac from Macamere - Mattie May Thomas
25: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson,
Disc 1
1: I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
2: Worrying Blues - Macon Ed & Tampa Joe
3: Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
4: Murder's Gonna Be My Crime - Sippie Wallace
5: The Murder of the Lawson Family - Carolina Buddies
6: Lord Randall, My Son - Josh White
7: Duncan and Brady - Dave Van Ronk
8: Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash
9: I'm Gonna Kill That Woman - Texas Slim
10: I'm Gonna Cut Your Head Mama - Homer Harris
11: Your Funeral and My Trial - Sonny Boy Williamson
12: Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
13: Down in the Willow Garden - The Everly Brothers
14: Knoxville Girl - The Louvin Brothers
15: Henry Lee - Dick Justice
16: Dying Capshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell
17: John Hardy - Lead Belly
18: Star Bootlegger - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
19: Down On the Banks of the Ohio - The Blue Sky Boys
20: The Killer - Cisco Houston
21: Gangster's Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
22: Prison Bound Blues - Leroy Carr
23: High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
24: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Paul Robeson
25: Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday

Disc 2
1: How I Got in the Penitentiary - Bama
2: Early in the Mornin' - 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye & Hard Hair
3: Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
4: DeKalb Chain Gang - Fred McMullen
5: Buggy Jail House Blues - Lillie Mae
6: Murder in the First Degree - Victoria Spivey
7: Workhouse Blues - Mattie May Thomas
8: He's in the Jailhouse Now - The Memphis Sheiks
9: I Fought the Law - The Crickets
10: Okie's in the Pokie - Jimmy Patton
11: The Last Meal - Hurricane Harry
12: It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad - 22 & Group
13: Jail House Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
14: Penitentiary Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
15: Shelby County Workhouse Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern
16: Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
17: Ball and Chain Blues - Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill
18: Kenny Wagner's Surrender - Ernest Stoneman
19: Tom Dooley - The New Lost City Ramblers
20: The Gallows Pole - Odetta
21: Slip Knot - Woody Guthrie
22: Old Dollar Mamie - 22 & Group
23: Tangle Eye Blues - Tangle Eye
24: Big Mac from Macamere - Mattie May Thomas
25: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson

Number of Discs: 2

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