When You Hear It, Heed It!
Take a warning! Beyond lies a show of Disaster & Calamity on this week’s installment of the Time Again Radio Show. There will be fires, floods, explosions and cyclones, trains and other malfunctioning machines! Even the most sophisticated mediums and technologies still struggle to capture the memory of such events in the way that music was seemingly meant to do. Tonight time again is a fair reminder of that and more, enjoy!
Playlist
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Mike Seeger, “The New Market Wreck”
from Tipple, Loom & Rail: Songs of the Industrialization of the South
Folkways Records - 1965
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McGee Bros & Uncle Dave Macon, “Tennessee Tornado”
2005
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Vernon Dalhart, “The Wreck of the 1256 (Recorded June 1925)”
from Popular 1920's Country Ballads, Vol. 2 (Recorded 1924-1926)
Vintage Recordings. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws - 2014
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Jaybird Coleman & Birmingham Jug Band, “Bill Wilson”
from Jaybird Coleman & the Birmingham Jug Band (1927-1930)
Document Records - 2005
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Blind Alfred Reed, “The Wreck of the Virginian”
from Blind Alfred Reed (1927-1929)
Document Records - 2005
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Richard "Rabbit" Brown, “Sinking of the Titanic”
from Never Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice - Blues, Ballads, Rags & Gospel In the Songster Tradition
2005
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Woody Guthrie, “The Sinking of the Reuben James”
from This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 1997
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J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, “Fatal Wreck of the Bus”
from Goin' Back West in the Fall
Synergie OMP - 2012
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John J. Quinn, “The Avondale Mine Disaster”
from Library of Congress - A Treasury of Field Recordings
1997
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Wilmer Watts, “Fate of Rhoda Sweeten”
2007
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The Phipps Family, “Red Jacket Mine Explosion”
from Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - 2002
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Various Artists, “Been in the Storm so Long”
from Been in the Storm so Long
Smithsonian Folkways - 1990
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Memphis Minnie, “Call the Fire Wagon”
Document - 1991
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The Dixon Brothers, “The School House Fire”
from Old Country Songs from Down On the Farm, Vol. 1
Vintage Masters - 2012
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The Carver Boys, “The Brave Engineer”
from The Music of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927-37, Vol. 2
2006
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Stoneman, Ernest V., “The Fate of Talmadge Osborne”
from Virginia Traditions: Native Virginia Ballads and Songs
2007