Doom & Gloom (Early Songs Of Angst And Disaster)

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Back in stock. Superb Trikont compilation compiled by Christoph Wagner. Hillbilly and blues musicians in the 1920s and 30s expressed the general mood in a poignant way. They sang of catastrophes and disasters, whether far away or on their doorstep. They talked of the effects these events had on the lives of ordinary people; they described what happened when disaster struck, as seen through the eyes of the victims. Perhaps the articulation of these awful events in songs helped to ease feelings of despair, offering a crumb of comfort to those listeners dealing with the brutal reality. Featuring: Blind Willie Johnson -Big Bill Broonzy - The Carter Family - - and many more. 1.God Moves On the Water - Blind Willie Johnson 2.Wreck On the Highway - Roy Acuff And His Crazy Tennesseeans 3.Baltimore Fire - Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers 4.Southern Flood Blues - Big Bill Broonzy 5.That Crazy War - Lulu Belle 6.When That Great Ship Went Down - William And Versey Smith 7.When The Atom Bomb Fell - Karl & Harty 8.He's Coming To Us Dead - Henry Whitter 9.Back-Water Blues - Bessie Smith 10.Providence Help The Poor People - Joe Williams 11.The Dying Soldier - The Carter Family 12.The Great Ship Went Down - Cofer Brothers 13.When the Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie 14.Explosion In The Fairmont Mines - Blind Alfred Reed 15.High Water Everywhere-Part 1 - Charley Patton 16.School House Fire - The Dixon Brothers 17.The Wreck Of The Southern Old - Riley Puckett 18.Flood Water Blues - Casey Bill Weldon 19.Jake Walk Blues - Allen Brothers 20.Sinking Of The Titanic - Richard 'Rabbit' Brown 21.Off To War I'm Going - Carolina Twins 22.Lumberton Wreck - Cauley Family 23.Rycove Cyclone - James Roberts 24.Dark Was The Night- Cold Was The Ground - Blind Willie Johnson