Show Notes
This week on the program, we turn our attention to songs about bandits and outlaws who have often been the subjects of folk music since the beginning of singing and telling tales. We'll hear music from Norman Blake, Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves, Addie Graham, Ry Cooder, Tim Hardin, Tom Russell and many more. Ballads about scoundrels and thieves … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkways Butch Thompson & Pat Donohue / “A Minor Fantasy” / Vicksburg Blues / Red House Norman Blake / “Billy Gray” / Blind Dog / Rounder Greg Hooven String Band / “Darling Corey” / The Harry Smith Connection / Smithsonian-Folkways Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves / “Red Haired Becky” / I Have Known Women / Strictly Country The Byrds / “Pretty Boy Floyd” / Sweetheart of the Rodeo / Columbia
Guy Clark / “The Last Gunfighter Ballad” / Texas Cookin' / Sugar Hill The MacAbre Brothers / “Otto Wood” / Traditional Murder Ballads / Roane Addie Graham / “Omie Wise” / Been a Long Time Traveling / June Appal Tim Hardin / “Lady Came from Baltimore” / Live in Concert / Polydor Paul Siebel / “Jack-Knife Gypsy” / Jack-Knife Gypsy / Elektra Butch Thompson & Pat Donohue / “Yancey Blues” / Vicksburg Blues / Red House
Ry Cooder / “Jesse James” / The Long Riders / Warner Brothers Ry Cooder / “Jesse James” / The Long Riders / Warner Brothers Tom Russell / “Tonight We Ride” / Old Songs Yet to Sing / Frontera Susan Pepper / “Tom Dooley” / Hollerin' Girl / Ballad Hamper McBee / “John Hardy” / Cumberland Moonshiner / Spring Fed The Red Clay Ramblers / “Run Sister Run” / A Lie of the Mind / Sugar Hill Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkways
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