Unprepared to die
Subtitle: America's greatest murder ballads and the true crime stories that inspired them
By: by Paul Slade
Publisher: Soundcheck Books LLP
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780992948078
Subjects: English Folk songs; Popular music; English Ballads; Songs and music; History and criticism; Death in music; Murder
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.
Table of contents: title: Stagger Lee : Meet the godfather of every gangsta rap song; title: Frankie & Johnny : The real woman behind Mae West's first starring role; title: Knoxville girl : One song's journey from 1680s England to today's Tennessee; title: The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll : Bob Dylan's masterpiece and the truthful lies it tells; title: Tom Dooley : Syphilis and murder in the wake of America's Civil War; title: Pretty Polly : Musical madness from a uniquely sadistic killer; title: Poor Ellen Smith : Uncovering the 1890s mule thief who wrote this indelible song; title: Murder of the Lawson family : Why did Charlie Lawson kill his family on Christmas Day?