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Unfortunate Rake - Unfortunate Rake / Various [CD]

Unfortunate Rake - Unfortunate Rake / Various [CD]

Release Date: /// Folkways Records

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The story is basically this: A soldier is dying, evidently of venereal disease he contracted from a young woman, and he requests a funeral. Hear how this story has been spun over centuries into a whole collection of similarly themed songs, the earliest possibly dating to 1790. In this recording we are essentially witnessing the evolution of the Anglo-Saxon ballad tradition.

Tracklist:

  1. The Unfortunate Rake
  2. The Trooper Cut Down In His Prime
  3. The Young Sailor Cut Down In His Prime
  4. No, I'm A Young Man Cut Down In My Prime
  5. The Bad Girl's Lament
  6. One Morning In May
  7. Bright Summer Morning
  8. The Girl In The Dilger Case
  9. The Cowboy's Lament
  10. Streets Of Laredo
  11. St. James Hospital
  12. Gambler's Blues
  13. I Once Was A Carman, I Once Was A Carman In The Big Mountain Con
  14. The Lineman's Hymn
  15. The Wild Lumberjack
  16. A Sun Valley Song
  17. The Ballad Of Bloody Thursday
  18. Streets Of Hamtramck
  19. The Ballad Of Sherman Wu
  20. The Professor's Lament

UPC: 093070380523
Label: FOLKWAYS RECORDS
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD

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