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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:
- The Unfortunate Rake
- The Trooper Cut Down In His Prime
- The Young Sailor Cut Down In His Prime
- No, I'm A Young Man Cut Down In My Prime
- The Bad Girl's Lament
- One Morning In May
- Bright Summer Morning
- The Girl In The Dilger Case
- The Cowboy's Lament
- Streets Of Laredo
- St. James Hospital
- Gambler's Blues
- I Once Was A Carman, I Once Was A Carman In The Big Mountain Con
- The Lineman's Hymn
- The Wild Lumberjack
- A Sun Valley Song
- The Ballad Of Bloody Thursday
- Streets Of Hamtramck
- The Ballad Of Sherman Wu
- The Professor's Lament
UPC: 093070380523
Label: FOLKWAYS RECORDS
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD
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