The other day I mentioned that I was gathering parts to make an oil can banjo. Well, it arrived in today’s post…. It comes with all kinds of great info on the sides. For instance: IMPORTANT – Unless otherwise marked, this package contains SULFLO No.… Read More
Back to our series on murder ballads. Duncan & Brady is also known as Been on the Job Too Long or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It’s all about the shooting of a policeman named Brady by a bartender named Duncan. This tune has been quite… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose features Fred Morrison on pipes. Why do I love folk music so much? Just give this one a listen.
I bought a can. On eBay. I’m waiting for it to make its way across the border so my postman can deliver it to 27th St. It looks like this…. It’s a beauty, isn’t it? Sulfur that flows. I like the slogan – It eases… Read More
I think I may make the series of thematic music posts I’ve been making on the subject of murder ballads a weekly post rather than continue it daily. While only one reader has mentioned that I seem to be playing a lot of violent music,… Read More
Let’s continue with another Daily Dose of Murder Ballads this evening by heading down to border country. Here’s Marty Robbins singing his career-defining tune El Paso. Robbins wrote this tune and first recorded it for his Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs album of 1959. By… Read More
I know you know this one. Frankie is a woman – she caught her Johnny, or is it her Albert, with another woman and she shot him down. Like many murder ballads, this one may have origins in an actual murder. The song has been… Read More
Lee Shelton lived from March 16, 1865 – March 11, 1912 in St. Louis Missouri. Who was Lee Shelton and why should we care? Well, Mr. Shelton shot William Lyons on Christmas night 1895. Shelton, was sent to the big house where he eventually died… Read More
I’m sure my American friends are familiar with Charles Guiteau as the preacher/lawyer/writer who assassinated President Garfield, a crime for which he was hanged. He did the deed on July 2, 1881, but Garfield didn’t perish untiil 11 weeks later on September 19. Anything else… Read More
Delia was a gamblin’ girl. She only had eyes for rounders, card players who knew all the angles. Cutty or Cooney, depending on the version, loved poor Delia but she didn’t love him back. Bad news. Here’s Martin Grosswendt… Now Cutty’s going to be in… Read More
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