Title: Songs of death & tragedy
Authors: Spottswood, Richard K.; McCormick, Mack.; Tubb, Ernest, 1914-1984.; McCoy, Ethel.; Polak, Wladylaw.; Hawkins, Ted; Ward, Fields, 1911-1987.; Jones, 1913-1998; Maddux, Pewee.; McCoy, George; Cephas, John; Stoneman, Ernest V.; Harter, George.; Ted Hawkins Mountaineers (Musical group); Lazy River Boys (Musical group); Conquistadores (Musical group); Dixon Brothers; Anglin Brothers (Musical group); Ernest V. Stoneman Trio.; Johnnie & Jack; Library of Congress.; Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
Publisher: Library of Congress, Music Division, Recording Laboratory,
Year: 1978
Subjects: Folk music United States; Death Songs and music.; Music United States
Contents: Will you miss me when I'm gone? (Blue Sky Boys) -- The TB is whipping me (Ernest Tubb) -- Menigitis blues (Ethel McCoy) -- Ostatnia wola pijaka (Wladyslaw Polak) -- Roamin' Jack (Ted Hawkins Mountaineers) -- The Lexington murder (Fields Ward) -- The brown girl and fair Eleanor (Grandpa Jones) -- Lover's crime (Pewee Maddux and his Lazy River Boys) -- Bad Lee Brown (Unknown Singer) -- Poor Kelly blues (George McCoy) -- John Henry (John Cephas) -- Homenaje a John F, Kennedy (Los Conquistadores) -- The wreck of the Old 97 (Ernest V. Stoneman Trio) -- Mountain Meadows massacre (George Harter) -- The school house fire (Dixon Brothers) -- Money cannot buy your soul (Anglin Brothers).