Various performers. Originally released on 78 rpm discs. Program notes by Christopher C. King, Henry "Hank" Sapoznik, and Tom Waits, and some lyrics (48 p. : ill.) bound in container.
Contents:
Disc 1, Man v. machine. Titanic blues / Hi Henry Brown & Charlie Jordan ; Wreck of the Old 97 / Skillet Lickers ; Bill Wilson / Birmingham Jug Band ; The crash of the Akron / Bob Miller ; The fate of Talmadge Osborne / Ernest Stoneman ; El mole rachmim (für Titanik) / Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt ; The wreck of the Virginian / Alfred Reed ; Fate of Will Rogers & Wiley Post / Bill Cox ; Down with the old canoe / Dorsey Dixon Brothers ; Wreck of Number 52 / Cliff Carlisle ; Kassie Jones part 1 ; Kassie Jones part 2 / Furry Lewis ; The brave engineer / Carver Boys ; The sinking of the Titanic / Richard "Rabbit" Brown ; Fate of Chris Lively and wife / Blind Alfred Reed ; Wreck on the mountain road / Red Fox Chasers ; The unfortunate brakeman / Kentucky Ramblers ; Altoona freight wreck / Riley Puckett ; The fatal wreck of the bus / Mainer's Mountaineers ; Last scene of the Titanic / Frank Hutchison ; Casey Jones / Skillet Lickers ; The wreck of the westbound airliner / Fred Pendleton ; The Titanic / Ernest Stoneman ; When that great ship went down / William & Versey Smith -- Disc 2, Man v. nature. The story of the mighty Mississippi / Ernest Stoneman ; Mississippi heavy water blues / Robert Hicks ; Dixie boll weevil / Fiddlin' John Carson ; Mississippi boweavil / Charlie Patton ; Ohio prison fire / Bob Miller ; Memphis flu / Elder Curry ; Explosion in the Fairmount Mine / Blind Alfred Reed) ; Storm that struck Miami / Fiddlin' John Carson ; When the levee breaks / Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie ; Alabama flood / Andrew Jenkins ; Burning of the Cleveland School / J.H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies ; High water everywhere, part 1 ; High water everywhere, part 2 / Charlie Patton ; Ryecove cyclone / Martin & Roberts ; McBeth mine explosion / Cap, Andy & Flip ; Dry well blues / Charlie Patton ; Baltimore fire / Charlie Poole ; Tennessee tornado / Uncle Dave Macon ; Dry spell blues, part 2 / Son House ; The Santa Barbara earthquake / Green Bailey ; The death of Floyd Collins / Vernon Dalhart ; The Porto Rico storm / Carson Robison Trio ; Boll weavil / W.A. Lindsey & Alvin Condor ; The flood of 1927 / Elders McIntorsh & Edwards -- Disc 3, Man v. man. Peddler and his wife / Hayes Shepherd ; The little grave in Georgia / Earl Johnson ; Kenney Wagner's surrender / Ernest Stoneman ; Henry Clay Beattie / Kelly Harrell ; The murder of the Lawson Family / Carolina Buddies ; Naomi Wise / Clarence Ashley ; Railroad Bill / Will Bennett ; Frankie / Dykes Magic City Trio ; Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, part 1 ; Trial of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, part 2 / Bill Cox ; Lanse des belaires / Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge ; Darling Cora / B.F. Shelton ; Billy Lyons and Stack O' Lee / Furry Lewis ; Tom Dooley / Grayson and Whitter ; The story of Freda Bolt / Floyd County Ramblers ; Pretty Polly / John Hammond ; Fingerprints upon the windowpane / Bob Miller ; The Bluefield murder / Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers ; Frankie Silvers / Ashley & Foster ; Fate of Rhoda Sweeten / Wilmer Watts ; Dupree blues / Willie Walker ; Poor Ellen Smith / Dykes Magic City Trio.
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