Murder: Songs from the Dark Side of the Soul

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Gamblin Bar Room Blues 2
recorded in:
Camden, New Jersey, United States (on 1932-08-15)
banjo:
Oddie McWinders (US vaudeville banjoist, Jimmie Rodgers accompanist) (on 1932-08-15)
fiddle:
Clayton McMichen (on 1932-08-15)
guitar:
Hoyt "Slim" Bryant (American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist) (on 1932-08-15)
vocals:
Jimmie Rodgers (country music pioneer, died in 1933) (on 1932-08-15)
recording of:
Gambling Bar Room Blues (on 1932-08-15)
writer:
Shelley Lee Alley and Jimmie Rodgers (country music pioneer, died in 1933)
Jimmie Rodgers3:23
2Frankie and Johnny
Ethel Waters3:07
3Your Funeral My Trial
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States (from 1955-08-12 until 1958-03-27)
guitar:
Eugene Pearson (guitar, blues)
piano:
Lafayette Leake
recording of:
Your Funeral & My Trial
lyricist and composer:
Sonny Boy Williamson (Aleck “Sonny Boy Williamson” Miller, 1912–1965)
Sonny Boy Williamson2:30
4Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard
Lord Executor2:50
5Prisoner's Plea
Billy Boy Arnold3:32
6Bandsman Shooting Case
Wilmoth Houdini and His Humming Birds2:52
744 Blues
Roosevelt Sykes3:08
8Biting Bug Blues
double bass:
Bill Settles (on 1935-12-16)
guitar:
Memphis Minnie (on 1935-12-16)
piano:
Black Bob (on 1935-12-16)
vocals:
Memphis Minnie (on 1935-12-16)
Memphis Minnie3:21
9Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
Bessie Smith & Her Blue Boys3:17
10Down in the Willow
Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris2:35
11Pistol Slapper Blues
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1938-04-05)
guitar:
Blind Boy Fuller (on 1938-04-05)
vocals:
Blind Boy Fuller (on 1938-04-05)
recording of:
Pistol Slapper Blues (in 1937)
lyricist and composer:
Fulton Allen
Blind Boy Fuller2:42
12Poor Naomi Wise
A’nt Idy Harper and The Coon Creek Girls2:38
13Bloodstains on the Wall
Honeyboy2:58
14Boom, Boom, Out Goes the Light
Little Walter and His Jukes2:43
15You Rascal, You (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead)
recording of:
I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You
lyricist and composer:
Sam Theard
publisher:
EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated)
Louis Armstrong With Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five3:05
16I'm Going Down With You
Champion Jack Dupree2:47
17Pretty Polly
The Stanley Brothers2:50
18Stack-A-Lee, Parts 1 & 2
Archibald4:34
19Bob McKinney
recorded in:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
guitar and solo lead vocals:
Henry Thomas (American country blues singer)
recording of:
Bob McKinney
writer:
Henry Thomas (American country blues singer)
Henry Thomas2:54
20Rose Conley
Grayson & Whitter3:23
21Strange Fruit
recording of:
Strange Fruit
lyricist and composer:
Lewis Allan
publisher:
Basart Editions, Carlin Music Corporation, Edward B. Marks Music Co. (founded originally as J. Stern & Co. in 1894, renamed in 1919) and Music Sales Corporation (American copyright holder in both popular and classical music)
version of:
Bitter Fruit
Billie Holiday3:08
22Got the Blues for Murder Only
Lonnie Johnson3:24
23The Fugitive's Lament
recorded in:
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States (on 1935-01-22)
guitar and lead vocals:
Alton Delmore (on 1935-01-22)
tenor guitar and background vocals:
Rabon Delmore (on 1935-01-22)
recording of:
The Fugitive's Lament (on 1935-01-22)
writer:
Alton Delmore
The Delmore Brothers2:41