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The Unfortunate Rake

The Unfortunate Rake (Folkways FS 3805)

The Unfortunate Rake (St. James Hospital)
A Study in the Evolution of a Ballad
Various Artists

Folkways Records FS 3805 (LP, USA, 1960);
Smithsonian Folkways FS3805 (CD/download, USA, 2007)

Edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein

Liner notes (PDF) at Smithsonian Global Sound

Musicians

see track list

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. A.L. Lloyd: The Unfortunate Rake (2.59)
  2. Ewan MacColl: The Trooper Cut Down in His Prime (4.30)
  3. Harry Cox: The Young Sailor Cut Down in His Prime (1.57)
  4. Willie Mathieson: Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime (2.17)
  5. Wade Hemsworth: The Bad Girl's Lament (2.49)
  6. Hally Wood: One Morning in May (2.36)
  7. Mrs. Viola Penn: Bright Summer Morning (2.24)
  8. D.K. Wilgus: The Girl in the Dilger Case (1.08)
  9. Bruce Buckley: The Cowboy's Lament (2.39)
  10. Harry Jackson: The Streets of Laredo (4.59)
  1. Alan Lomax: St. James Hospital (3.33)
  2. Dave Van Ronk: Gambler's Blues (2.44)
  3. Guthrie Meade: I Once Was a Carman in the Big Mountain Con (1.12)
  4. Rosalie Sorrels: The Lineman's Hymn (1.49)
  5. Kenneth S. Goldstein: The Wild Lumberjack (1.51)
  6. Jan Brunvand: A Sun Valley Song (1.28)
  7. John Greenway: The Ballad of Bloody Thursday (3.44)
  8. Bill Friedland: The Streets of Hamtramck (2.23)
  9. Pete Seeger: The Ballad of Sherman Wu (2.07)
  10. Roger Abrahams: The Professor's Lament (3.25)

Track 1 from A.L. Lloyd: English Street Songs, Riverside RLP-12-614, 1956;
Track 2 from Ewan MacColl: Barrack Room Ballads, Topic 10T26, 1958;