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| Management number | 205638776 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $71.10 | Model Number | 205638776 | ||
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Title: Unfortunate Rake / Various
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093070380523
Genre: Country, Folk
Release Date: 2012-05-30
Number of Discs: 1
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.
Tracks:
1.1 The Unfortunate Rake
1.2 The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime
1.3 The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime
1.4 Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime
1.5 The Bad Girl's Lament
1.6 One Morning in May
1.7 Bright Summer Morning
1.8 The Girl in the Dilger Case
1.9 The Cowboy's Lament
1.10 Streets of Laredo
1.11 St. James Hospital
1.12 Gambler's Blues
1.13 I Once Was a Carman - I Once Was a Carman in the Big Mountain Con
1.14 The Lineman's Hymn
1.15 The Wild Lumberjack
1.16 A Sun Valley Song
1.17 The Ballad of Bloody Thursday
1.18 Streets of Hamtramck
1.19 The Ballad of Sherman Wu
1.20 The Professor's Lament
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093070380523
Genre: Country, Folk
Release Date: 2012-05-30
Number of Discs: 1
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.
Tracks:
1.1 The Unfortunate Rake
1.2 The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime
1.3 The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime
1.4 Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime
1.5 The Bad Girl's Lament
1.6 One Morning in May
1.7 Bright Summer Morning
1.8 The Girl in the Dilger Case
1.9 The Cowboy's Lament
1.10 Streets of Laredo
1.11 St. James Hospital
1.12 Gambler's Blues
1.13 I Once Was a Carman - I Once Was a Carman in the Big Mountain Con
1.14 The Lineman's Hymn
1.15 The Wild Lumberjack
1.16 A Sun Valley Song
1.17 The Ballad of Bloody Thursday
1.18 Streets of Hamtramck
1.19 The Ballad of Sherman Wu
1.20 The Professor's Lament
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