Crime & Punishment | Bloody Ballads...-2Cd- | 2CD

Various-artists collections bring together contrasting voices, performances and styles around a shared theme. They offer a way to explore familiar recordings alongside material from a wider range of performers.

Crime & Punishment divides its various-artists programme between songs about crime and songs about its consequences. Compiled by Kris Needs, the two-disc collection draws on blues, country and other American traditions, preserving the theme of each disc separately.

Track listing

Disc 1

1. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
2. Worrying Blues - Macon Ed & Tampa Joe
3. Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
4. Murder's Gonna Be My Crime - Sippie Wallace
5. The Murder of the Lawson Family - Carolina Buddies
6. Lord Randall, My Son - Josh White
7. Duncan and Brady - Dave Van Ronk
8. Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash
9. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman - Texas Slim
10. I'm Gonna Cut Your Head Mama - Homer Harris
11. Your Funeral and My Trial - Sonny Boy Williamson
12. Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
13. Down in the Willow Garden - The Everly Brothers
14. Knoxville Girl - The Louvin Brothers
15. Henry Lee - Dick Justice
16. Dying Capshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell
17. John Hardy - Lead Belly
18. Star Bootlegger - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
19. Down On the Banks of the Ohio - The Blue Sky Boys
20. The Killer - Cisco Houston
21. Gangster's Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
22. Prison Bound Blues - Leroy Carr
23. High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
24. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Paul Robeson
25. Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday

Disc 2

1. How I Got in the Penitentiary - Bama
2. Early in the Mornin' - 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye & Hard Hair
3. Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
4. DeKalb Chain Gang - Fred McMullen
5. Buggy Jail House Blues - Lillie Mae
6. Murder in the First Degree - Victoria Spivey
7. Workhouse Blues - Mattie May Thomas
8. He's in the Jailhouse Now - The Memphis Sheiks
9. I Fought the Law - The Crickets
10. Okie's in the Pokie - Jimmy Patton
11. The Last Meal - Hurricane Harry
12. It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad - 22 & Group
13. Jail House Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
14. Penitentiary Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
15. Shelby County Workhouse Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern
16. Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
17. Ball and Chain Blues - Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill
18. Kenny Wagner's Surrender - Ernest Stoneman
19. Tom Dooley - The New Lost City Ramblers
20. The Gallows Pole - Odetta
21. Slip Knot - Woody Guthrie
22. Old Dollar Mamie - 22 & Group
23. Tangle Eye Blues - Tangle Eye
24. Big Mac from Macamere - Mattie May Thomas
25. Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson,

Disc 1

1. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby - Pat Hare
2. Worrying Blues - Macon Ed & Tampa Joe
3. Stackalee - Frank Hutchison
4. Murder's Gonna Be My Crime - Sippie Wallace
5. The Murder of the Lawson Family - Carolina Buddies
6. Lord Randall, My Son - Josh White
7. Duncan and Brady - Dave Van Ronk
8. Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash
9. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman - Texas Slim
10. I'm Gonna Cut Your Head Mama - Homer Harris
11. Your Funeral and My Trial - Sonny Boy Williamson
12. Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt
13. Down in the Willow Garden - The Everly Brothers
14. Knoxville Girl - The Louvin Brothers
15. Henry Lee - Dick Justice
16. Dying Capshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell
17. John Hardy - Lead Belly
18. Star Bootlegger - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
19. Down On the Banks of the Ohio - The Blue Sky Boys
20. The Killer - Cisco Houston
21. Gangster's Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
22. Prison Bound Blues - Leroy Carr
23. High Sheriff Blues - Charley Patton
24. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Paul Robeson
25. Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday

Disc 2

1. How I Got in the Penitentiary - Bama
2. Early in the Mornin' - 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye & Hard Hair
3. Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
4. DeKalb Chain Gang - Fred McMullen
5. Buggy Jail House Blues - Lillie Mae
6. Murder in the First Degree - Victoria Spivey
7. Workhouse Blues - Mattie May Thomas
8. He's in the Jailhouse Now - The Memphis Sheiks
9. I Fought the Law - The Crickets
10. Okie's in the Pokie - Jimmy Patton
11. The Last Meal - Hurricane Harry
12. It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad - 22 & Group
13. Jail House Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
14. Penitentiary Moan Blues - Texas Alexander
15. Shelby County Workhouse Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern
16. Prison Cell Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
17. Ball and Chain Blues - Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill
18. Kenny Wagner's Surrender - Ernest Stoneman
19. Tom Dooley - The New Lost City Ramblers
20. The Gallows Pole - Odetta
21. Slip Knot - Woody Guthrie
22. Old Dollar Mamie - 22 & Group
23. Tangle Eye Blues - Tangle Eye
24. Big Mac from Macamere - Mattie May Thomas
25. Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson