Requests?

Anybody have any requests? Post em here in the comments....I'll try my best to meet them.


also I have some requests of my own. If anyone has any Todd Snider bootlegs (that I haven't posted) or Ray Wylie Hubbard bootlegs, please feel free to share them. I would greatly appreciate it.

Re-Post: Murder Ballads & Songs About Killin'

Per request, here is a collection of murder ballads and other songs about killin'. I was surprised at how many I actually found in my collection, but I narrowed the scope down to more traditional sounding songs which meant I had to cut alot of good stuff like Steve Earle's "Billy Austin" & "The Devil's Right Hand", DBT's "Nine Bullets", "Decoration Day", & "Cottonseed", Old 97's "The Other Shoe", Johnny Cash's "Cocaine Blues" & "Sound of Laughter", Hendrix's "Hey Joe".....lots of good stuff, but I think what I came up with has a much more consistent flow.
I'm gonna give a brief description of each song Harry Smith style, so here goes:

1. Knoxville Girl by The Louvin Brothers
'Willy' (he seems to be the protagonist in alot of these songs) beats his 'Knoxville girl' to death with a stick then drags her by her hair and throws her into the Tennessee river.

2. Pretty Polly by Ralph Stanley & Patty Loveless
This is my favorite version of this song. 'Willy' lures 'Pretty Polly' into the woods and stabs her in the heart because she won't marry him, he then burys her in the grave he dug "the biggest part of last night".

3. Little Sadie by Doc Watson
You may know the more familiar "Cocaine Blues", this is the song it is derived from. Man kills 'Little Sadie' with a .44, he is then hunted down, arrested, and tried.

4. Little Glass of Wine by The Stanley Brothers
'Willy' wants to marry 'Molly', but she wants to wait a year. He then finds her dancing with another man and poisons her and himself.

5. Omie Wise by Doc Watson
True story of the murder of Naomi Wise by John Lewis in North Carolina circa 1808. John Lewis drowns Omie Wise whose body is found days later by 2 fisherman.

6. Pretty Daughter by The Bad Livers
A man who doesn't want his daughter to marry and leave him alone finds her in the woods with 'a boy from town' and kills him with a pick-axe.

7. Delia's Gone by Johnny Cash
An old traditional song that Johnny Cash brought to the mainstream. A man ties Delia to a chair in her parlor and shoots her for being low down and triflin'.

8. The Lawson Family Murder by Doc Watson
Probably the most twisted song in this collection. Charlie Lawson kills his wife and 6 children then shoots himself in the heart on a Christmas evening.

9. Caleb Meyer by Gillian Welch
My favorite song off this collection. Caleb Meyer attempts to rape Nellie Cane whose husband has went to town. He pins her down but she reaches the neck of the whiskey bottle he threw down and uses it to slit his throat and kill him.

10. Westfall by Okkervil River
This one is a contemporary murder ballad. Tells the story of a young man who goes over to his friend Colin Kincaid's house in Westfall where they meet up with 2 girls from Kenwood Christian and he ends up murdering one of them.

11. Country Death Song by Violent Femmes
A man kills his youngest daughter by throwing her in the well then hangs himself in the barn.

12. Polly Vaughn by The Dillards
A hunter accidentally shoots his true love mistaking her for a swan in the darkness.

13. Tom Dooley by Doc Watson
Probably the most famous murder ballad. Tom Dooley kills Laura Foster then burys her in a shallow grave on the hillside. Based on the real life murder of Laura Foster by Tom Dula.

14. John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man by Anita Carter
This is an old Carter Family song. John Hardy kills a man on the West Virginia line, he is caught and hanged.

15. Henry Lee by Dick Justice
A woman kills Henry Lee with a pen knife and hides his body in a well because he loves another more than her.

16. Philadelphia Lawyer by Maddox Brothers & Rose
A cowboy kills the 'Philadelphia Lawyer' who lured his 'Hollywood Maid' away from him.

17. The Fate of Dewey Lee by The Carter Family
True story of the murder of Dewey Lee in Virginia circa 1931 who was killed by Joe Jenkins during a night of drinking for an unknown reason.

18. Otto Wood the Bandit by Doc Watson
Otto Wood gets in an argument with a pawnshop clerk and shoots him dead. He is then arrested, escapes, shot and arrested again, escapes and finally killed by two sheriffs in a southern town.

19. Stagger Lee by Taj Mahal
An old traditional blues song. Stagger Lee kills Billy during a game of craps.

20. Banks of the Ohio by Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs & Allison Krauss
An old traditional song, some people think this is a retelling of the same murder sung about in "Pretty Polly". A man proposes marriage to a young woman on the banks of the ohio river, when she refuses he drowns her.

21. Frankie and Johnny by Merle Haggard
An old Jimmie Rodgers tune, but I like this Haggard version off his Rodgers tribute album. Frankie shoots Johnny 3 times with a .44 when she finds him making love to Nelly Bly.

22. Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On by Tom T. Hall
Johnny goes on a shooting spree in 1944 killing all the people who called him a coward for not being able to enlist during WWII.

23. Cedartown Georgia by Waylon Jennings
A man kills his wife with a .22 when he catches her cheating on him.

24. Blue Rock Montana by Willie Nelson
A man kills his wife and the man she was cheating on him with in a tavern in Blue Rock Montana.

Murder Ballads & Songs About Killin'

Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings - Sin City (Video Clip)

video from the TV show of the same GP Tribute

Gram Parsons All Star Tribute Sessions

This is a great recording of TV special that was made for the gram parsons tribute album "Return of The Greivous Angel". Featuring Emmylou Harris as the anchor point around a revolving door of Alt-country & Roots music superstars playing Parsons' greatest hits, this is a must hear for any fan of Country Rock & Alt Country alike.

Return of the Grievous Angel - Emmylou Harris & Ryan Adams
High Fashion Queen - Chris Hillman & Steve Earle
dialog - John Hiatt & Emmylou Harris
Hickory Wind - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Hot Burrito #1 - The Mavericks
dialog - Hiatt & Harris
Sin City - Earle & Welch
100 Years From Now - Wilco*
dialog - Hiatt, Harris, & Chris Hillman
Juanita - Sheryl Crow & Harris
dialog - Hiatt, Harris, Hillman
Wheels - Hillman & Jim Lauderdale
dialog - Hiatt, Harris, Hillman
A Song For You - Whiskeytown
In My Hour of Darkness - Victoria Williams w/All

House band:
Bernie Leadon (mandolin, elec. guitar)
Greg Leisz (guitars, lap and pedal steel)
Buddy Miller (bass)
Paul "Wix" Wickens (keyboards, accordian)
Ethan Johns (drums)

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Drive-By Truckers - Under Cover, Someone Else's Song (from Hear Rock City)

Another fine post over at Hear Rock City, a DBT covers album.

and make sure you check out some of his other stuff....they have lots and lots of great live shows over there.

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Southern Culture On The Skids - Live at El Sol

This is an incredible live album. If you are unfamiliar with Southern Culture On The Skids, then download this....it's a great intro to them. Recorded during the peak of their career at El Sol in Madrid Spain on December 6, 1997....SCOTS are in typical form here....in all their garage-surf-white trash-chicken eatin' glory. Key tracks are....well all of it....SCOTS throw one hell of a party when they play live.....go-go dancers (girls from the audience invited up), chicken tossin', mexican wrestlers, and some of the best damned guitar playing since they took the genes of Link Wray and spliced them with Tony Joe White.....well they never actually did that but if they did it would sound just like SCOTS guitarist and frontman Rick Miller. Give this a listen folks, you won't be dissapointed.

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DBT - Southern Rock Opera Live in Raleigh, NC 8-6-2001 (from Hear Rock City)

Another great boot over at Hear Rock City, and a great supplement to the other one I posted

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Southern Culture On The Skids - Eight Piece Box (Video Clip)

One of the greatest live bands ever

Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera Live - Jan. 18 - 19, 2002

This is a DBT live show from 2002 where they run through all the songs off of their epic Southern Rock Opera album (and a couple that aren't). The first night is dedicated to Act I, and the second night is dedicated to Act II. Recorded at the Zephyr Club in Salt Lake City Utah, at this time DBT were still a fairly unknown band and were just starting to get critical aclaim. It's nice to have live versions of all the songs off SRO, and a couple of the older songs like Buttholeville & One of These Days fit in nicely. It makes me wonder if these songs were supposed to be part of the overall "rock opera".....I say yes, just because they fit in so good. So sit back, relax, and take a trip back to when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

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Re-post: DBT - Live Acoustic & Otherwise

These are some great intimate recordings of one of my favorite bands, The Drive-By Truckers. The first disc is comprised of 2 great acoustic sets, the first is an in-store acoustic at Waterloo Records in Austin, Texas on August 22, 2003 where they run through some songs off Decoration Day. The other is at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta, Georgia on May 1, 2004 where the play some old familiars off Decoration Day and some then new songs off The Dirty South. To finish up the first disc we have a great performance of Jason singing Randy Newman's Louisiana 1927 at Manchester Academy in Manchester, England. This was recorded shortly after Hurricane Katrina and the band played this song in tribute.

The second disc starts off with an absolutely killer in-studio performance at KBCO 97.3FM in Boulder, Colorado from August 16, 2004 which is comprised of an interview and 2 songs from The Dirty South. Next up we have the real prize here, a set of tunes recorded at what sounds like a house party at Mike Cooley's house on December 29, 2003. This is a real laid back performance and you gotta love all the chatter, singin' along and bottles clangin'. That would have been one hell of a party to have been to, and thankfully someone had the foresight to record it.

• Disc 1
  Waterloo Records (Acoustic) August 22,2003
  1-Intro/Outfit
  2-Heathens
  3-Marry Me
  4-Decoration Day
  5-(Somethings Gotta) Give Pretty Soon
  6-Sounds Better In A Song
  Smiths Olde Bar (Acoustic) May 1, 2004
  7-Intro/Interview
  8-My Sweet Annette
  9-Marry Me
  10-Outfit
  11-(Somethings Gotta) Give Pretty Soon
  12-Daddys Cup
  13-Never Gonna Change
  14-Sink Hole
  Manchester England September 6, 2005
  15-Louisiana 1927 (Hurricane Katrina Tribute)
  
  
  
• Disc 2
  KBCO Studio C August 16, 2004
  1-Intro
  2-Never Gonna Change
  3-Interview
  4-Carl Perkin's Cadillac
  5-Outro
  Cooley's House December 29, 2003
  6-Zip City
  7-Lookout Mountain
  8-Decoration Day
  9-Outfit
  10-Where The Devil Don't Stay
  11-When The Pin Hits The Shell
  12-Do It Yourself
  13-Danko/Manuel
  14-Goddamn Lonely Love
  15-Never Gonna Change
  16-The Day John Henry Died
  17-Tales Facing Up

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