. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Ballads, English"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Music"@en . . . "Music" . . . . . . . . "People take warning murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "\"This beautifully remastered 70 track collection presents powerful and tragic stories from the Golden Age of American roots music.\" -- back cover."@en . . . . . . . "Old-time music"@en . . "Whether documenting the sinking of the Titanic or a long-forgotten local murder, these 70 recordings are audio messages in a bottle, reflecting a lost world where age-old ballads rubbed up against songs inspired by the day's headlines."@en . . . . . . . . "\"In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Depression gripped the nation. It was a time when songs were tools for living. A whole community would turn out to mourn the loss of a member and to sow their songs like seeds. This collection is a wild garden grown from those seeds.\" -- Tom Waits, from Introduction."@en . "Murder ballads and disaster songs, 1913-1938"@en . "Murder ballads and disaster songs, 1913-1938" . . . . . . . "Folk songs, English"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Popular music"@en . . "People take warning! murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938" . "People take warning! murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938"@en . . . . . . . "Murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938"@en . "Murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938" . . . . . . . . . "People take warning! : Murder ballads & disaster songs, 1913-1938" . . "1911 - 1940" . . . . "Ashley & Foster." . .