Terrapin Ben Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 i want to make a mix tape with this being the common theme. Help me out. Preferably a country western maybe folky feel to the tunes... so far i have: Dire Wolf - Grateful DeadHanging Me Tonight - Marty RobbinsIn Search of Little Sadie - Bob DylanOutlaw Blues - Bob DylanFolsom Prison Blues - John CashLong Black Veil - John CashDreadful Wind and Rain - TradStagger Lee - Nick CaveMidnight Rider - ABBI'm a Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard Layers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon what else do you got? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost of Electricity Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 you could do about a hundred mix tapes of this... Vetiver- Know No PardonNick Cave and/or Johnny Cash- the Mercy SeatMerle Haggard and/or Flying Burritto Brothers (and probably others)- Sing Me back HomeJohnny Cash- Don't take your guns to townNeil Young -Down By the RiverWilco-Bull Black Nova this in just 30 seconds off the top of my head- if i started thinking of Greatful Dead and Tom Waits and The Harry Smith Anthology there would be dozens more Quote Link to post Share on other sites
saluqi Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Pancho & Lefty Townes Van ZandtBlack River Killer Blitzen Trapper Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mjpuczko Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 great idea for a mix tape!grateful dead - me & my uncle Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 "Mama Tried" - Merle Haggardmaybe the best song ever written. Also... check PMs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CortezTheKiller Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 You Never Even Called Me By My Name - David Allan Coe (with special thanks to Steve Goodman for making it fit perfectly into this theme)There Ain't No Good Chain Gang - Johnny Cash & Waylon JenningsCocaine Blues (Live @ Folsom Prison) - Johnny CashDelia's Gone - Johnny CashDon't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand - Waylon JenningsMy Own Kind of Hat - Merle HaggardBranded Man - Merle HaggardMurdering Oscar - Patterson HoodCottonseed - Drive-By TruckersThe Wig He Made Her Wear - Drive-By Truckers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 If you go back to music made in the 1920s and 1930s you will find lots of songs in this category. But you are going to have to get out of the 1960s to present. Most of the songs that you have listed that are covers by Cave and Cash, etc, are from an earlier time. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CortezTheKiller Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 If you go back to music made in the 1920s and 1930s you will find lots of songs in this category. But you are going to have to get out of the 1960s to present. Most of the songs that you have listed that are covers by Cave and Cash, etc, are from an earlier time. LouieBWhile there exists a greater range and variety of these types of songs from the 20's and 30's, I completely disagree that you have to leave the 60's - present to make a good mixtape on the subject. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The High Heat Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Narrow Escape ~ Ray LaMontagne Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 I shall be released - Bob Dylan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tweedling Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Last gunfighter ballad : Guy Clark with Waylon Jennings backing vocalsAn amazing song with a wicked sense of detail. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren ZevonAlso, the first two songs from Warren's self-titled album: Frank & Jesse James and Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Calexico - The Ballad of Cable Hogue any song of Nick Cave's _Murder Ballads_ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 Most any tune off of Dylan's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid album, particularly "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," " Main Title Theme (Billy)," " Cantina Theme," " and "Billy 4" or "Billy 7" ( I prefer "Billy 4"). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouisvilleGreg Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 It's a real rarity, and it's fucking spectacular, but try and find "The Ballad of the self-loading Pistol" by Springsteen. Downright spooky. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 While there exists a greater range and variety of these types of songs from the 20's and 30's, I completely disagree that you have to leave the 60's - present to make a good mixtape on the subject.Okay.....I just said you might want to go further back for some really crazy stuff about outlaws and murders and prison and shit, that's all. Check out both the Anthology of American Folk music for classic stuff as well as disk three from People Take Warning. 1913-1937 which includes:Disc: 3 1. Peddler And His Wife Hayes Shepherd 2. The Little Grave in Georgia Earl Johnson 3. Kenney Wagner's Surrender Ernest Stoneman 4. Henry Clay Beattie Kelly Harrell 5. The Murder Of the Lawson Family Carolina Buddies 6. Naomi Wise Clarence Ashley 7. Railroad Bill Will Bennett 8. Frankie Dykes Magic City Trio 9. Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 1 Bill Cox 10. Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, Part 2 Bill Cox 11. Lanse Des Belaires Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge 12. Darling Cora B.F. Shelton 13. Billy Lyons and Stack O' Lee Furry Lewis 14. Tom Dooley Grayson and Whitter 15. The Story of Freda Bolt Floyd County Ramblers 16. Pretty Polly John Hammond 17. Fingerprints Upon the Windowpane Bob Miller 18. The Bluefield Murder Roy Harvey & The North Carolina Ramblers 19. Frankie Silvers Ashley & Foster 20. Fate of Rhoda Sweeten Wilmer Watts 21. Dupree Blues Willie Walker 22. Poor Ellen Smith Dykes Magic City Trio El Paso and some of the other songs on Marty Robbins album Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs which is from the 60s. Actually for some up to date stuff see the Executioners last Songs volumes 1, 2 and 3. "Looking through Gary Gilmores Eyes" by the Adverts for a more punk sensibility. And stealing directly from Wikipedia because my brain is fried from the hot weather and mostquitos... "Banks of the Ohio" - Blue Sky Boys, The Carter Family, Monroe Brothers, Johnny Cash, Doc Watson "Child Owlet" - Steeleye Span "The Cruel Mother," also known as "Carlisle Hall" and "Fine Flowers in the Valley" - Joan Baez and Quadriga Consort "Edward" - Steeleye Span "Frankie and Johnny" - Mississippi John Hurt, Brook Benton, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash "I Hung My Head" - Sting, Johnny Cash "Jellon Grame" - Broadside Electric "Knoxville Girl" - Blue Sky Boys, Louvin Brothers, Wilburn Brothers "Lamkin" - Martin Carthy, Steeleye Span "Lily of the West" - Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Chieftains "Little Sadie," also known as "Cocaine Blues" - Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Hank Thompson, Uncle Tupelo, Merle Travis, Woodie Guthrie "Lizie Wan" - Kate Bush "Lord Randall" "Mary Hamilton" - Joan Baez "My Good Gal" - Old Crow Medicine Show "Omie Wise," also known as "Poor Little Omie Wise" - Clarence Ashley, Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Shirley Collins, Pentangle "Poor Ellen Smith" - Molly O'Day, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Stanley Brothers, Country Gentlemen "Pretty Polly" - Dock Boggs, Judy Collins, Ralph Stanley, Kristin Hersh, Bert Jansch, Sandy Denny "Stagger Lee," also known as "Stagolee," "Stackerlee," "Stack O'Lee," "Stack-a-Lee" - Mississippi John Hurt, Ma Rainey, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Memphis Slim, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Nick Cave "Tom Dooley" - Kingston Trio, Lonnie Donegan, Doc Watson "The Twa Sisters," also known as "Cruel Sister," "The Two Sisters," and "Binnorie" - Pentangle, Clannad "Westfall" - Okkervil River LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost of Electricity Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 sure wish i had a recorded version of this. Loose Fur once played this live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VMWACzDI0o Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Somnambulist Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Blitzen Trapper - The Man Who Would Speak True Although already mentioned, Black River Killer by Blitzen Trapper is also a nice one. Can you say that about a murder ballad? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 frankie & albert - mississippi john hurt Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sonnyfeeling Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Caleb Meyer, Gillian Welch (or the cover by the Greencards)By the Dawn's Early Light, Yonder Mountain String Band Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones and others...On a Monday - Ry Cooder and lots of others....(actually a Ledbelly song...)Jimmie Rogers - In the Jailhouse Now...also done by others. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Supergrass - "Caught by the Fuzz" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson. Quite possibly my favorite song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson. Quite possibly my favorite song.Great call. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CortezTheKiller Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Okay.....I just said you might want to go further back for some really crazy stuff about outlaws and murders and prison and shit, that's all. Check out both the Anthology of American Folk music for classic stuff as well as disk three from People Take Warning. LouieBI actually own the Anthology of American Folk Music as a result of a project I did while an American Studies graduate student. I'd be lying if I claimed it was something I listen to with any frequency. A few more suggestions:They Caught The Devil And Put Him In Jail In Eudora, Arkansas - Tony Joe WhiteTillamook County Jail - Todd SniderChristmas in Prison - John PrineNebraska - Bruce SpringsteenHow Will You Meet Your End - A.A. BondyCortez the Killer - Neil Young & Crazy HorseLadies Love Outlaws - Waylon Jennings Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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