People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938, by Various (CD box set on Tompkins Square)

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Rating: ecstatic This record left Hy Shuster feeling ecstatic.

Leave it to the Americans to astutely and beautfifully deconstruct their own music and cultural history. In a unique and breathtaking way, this anthology by, as the label says, "the Grammy award winning team of Christopher King and Hank Sapoznik" have constructed a package which allows both experts and novices a critical insight into the rise of commercial rural music both for blacks and whites. Sparkling remastering by King with a brilliantly fetching design by Susan Archie gives the listener an heirloom quality package while the notes by Sapoznik and Tom Waits illuminate the tenor of the times in erudite and colorful language. This is a terrific team and one can only hope that Tompkins Square will reunite them for many more reissues in the future.

Review date: 13 October 2007

What the label says:

“A Landmark 3CD Box Set - In the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, 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 Songs of death, destruction and disaster, recorded by black and white performers from the dawn of American roots recording are here, assembled together for the first time. Whether they document world-shattering events like the sinking of the Titanic or memorialize long forgotten local murders or catastrophes, these 70 recordings – over 30 never before reissued – are audio messages in a bottle reflecting a lost world where age old ballads rubbed up against songs inspired by the day's headlines. Featuring beautifully remastered recordings by the some of the cornerstones of American vernacular recording such as Charlie Patton, Ernest Stoneman, Furry Lewis, Charlie Poole and Uncle Dave Macon, these songs tell of life and death struggles forever immortalized on these rare and compelling 78 rpms. Produced and annotated by the Grammy winning team of Christopher King and Henry “Hank” Sapoznik with an introduction by Tom Waits, the accompanying 48-page three-CD anthology designed by Grammy award winning Susan Archie brims with many eye-popping historic images never before reproduced.

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