American Ballads and Folk Songs
Title | American Ballads and Folk Songs PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Lomax |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 719 |
Release | 2013-07-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 048631992X |
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
Songs, Ballads, and Stories
Title | Songs, Ballads, and Stories PDF eBook |
Author | William Allingham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Ballads, English |
ISBN |
A manuscript revision of the 1st edition of William Allingham's Songs, ballads and stories. It is inscribed on the preliminary pages with the author's autograph corrections, markings, and revisions, and with additional text and notes written on the blank interleaves.
Unprepared To Die
Title | Unprepared To Die PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Slade |
Publisher | Soundcheck Books |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2015-11-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 099294807X |
The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Title | The English and Scottish Popular Ballads PDF eBook |
Author | Francis James Child |
Publisher | |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Ballads, English |
ISBN |
Songs, Ballads and Stories
Title | Songs, Ballads and Stories PDF eBook |
Author | William Allingham |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Songs, Ballads, And Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, The Rest Revised And Rearranged
Title | Songs, Ballads, And Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, The Rest Revised And Rearranged PDF eBook |
Author | William Allingham |
Publisher | Wentworth Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2019-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781010565444 |
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American Ballads and Folk Songs
Title | American Ballads and Folk Songs PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Lomax |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780486282763 |
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.