VA ~ Murder: Songs from the Dark Side of the Soul [Trikont, 2009]

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01. Jimmie Rodgers - Gamblin' Bar Room Blues 2 (1932)
02. Ethel Waters - Frankie and Johnny (1938)
03. Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral My Trial (1958)
04. Lord Executor - Seven Skeletons Found in the Yard (1938)
05. Billy Boy Arnold - Prisoner's Plea (1957)
06. Wilmoth Houdini and His Humming Birds - Bandsman Shooting Case (1934)
07. Roosevelt Sykes "The Honey Dripper" - 44 Blues (1939)
08. Memphis Minnie - Biting Bug Blues (1935)
09. Bessie Smith & Her Blue Boys - Send Me to the 'lectric Chair (1937)
10. Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris - Down in the Willow Garden(1937)
11. Blind Boy Fuller - Pistol Slapper Blues (1938)
12. A'nt Idy Harper & the Coon Creek Girls - Poor Naomi Wise (1938)
13. Honeyboy - Bloodstains on the Wall (1953)
14. Little Walter and His Jukes - Boom Boom, Out Goes the Light (1955)
15. Louis Armstrong with Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - You Rascal, You (1950)
16. Champion Jack Dupree - I'm Going Down with You (1945)
17. The Stanley Brothers - Pretty Polly (1950)
18. Archibald - Stack-A-Lee Parts 1 & 2 (1950)
19. Henry Thomas "Ragtime Texas" - Bob McKinney (1927)
20. G B Grayson & Henry Whitter - Rose Conley (1927)
21. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (1938)
22. Lonnie Johnson - Got the Blues for Murder Only (1930)
23. The Delmore Brothers - The Fugitive's Lament (1935)



'Ever since the days of Cain and Abel, many a fine murder story has gripped people's imagination. Jealousy is not the only root cause of man's murderous impulse. Greed, lust, guilt, power - any one of these, it seems, is sufficient to justify taking a human life. Every day we read of brutal murders being committed. These stories were ripped from newspaper headlines and recast into verse and recorded, often within weeks of the actual event. They became part of the repertoire of hillbilly bands, blues guitarists, jugbands, r&b and tin pan alley entertainers, bluegrass artists and calypso singers.'

one of the most successful thematic compilations of haunted olde tunes from the trikont imprint, featuring a few familiar staples & several more stunners that don't seem to get repeatedly regurgitated on every new old-timey comp from some of the younger upstarts. 320 er FLACK + bi-lingual skannage

VA ☆ Hò! #1 ~ Roady Music from Vietnam [Trikont]

01. Dan Bau Vietnam: Rider In The Sky 3:40
02. Ly Ngua O: Saigon Oi 7:26
03. Dead Men's Orchestra: Totencombo 4:16
04. Tanh Nam "Teu" 11: Bonanza (Bat Ghen) 0:51
05. Eo Sinh & Namh Hao: Vc Love Song 4:01
06. Thu Hien: Hoa Cau 4:03
07. Tanh Nam "Teu" 11: Lucky Luke (Bat Ghen) 0:55
08. Santana V: Totensamba 1:28
09. VC Hooker: Vc's Blues 3:38
10. SRV Opera Singers: Barbecue-Songs 2:45
11. Janiv: Totblues 1:08
12. Anh Sang: Totensong 3:23
13. Anh Sang: One Ship Will Come 3:49
14. Dan Bau Vietnam: Chinese Song 2:48
15. Ferry Duo: Fnl's Blues 2:52
16. Dylan Tanh: Balanced Voice Songs 3:30
17. Ly Ngua O: Vo Chong Lam Bieng 3:07
18. Clint Viet: Mot Nam Do/Dollar-Hand 3:05
19. Thanh Tam: Cung Dan Dat Nuoc 3:32
20. Thu Hien: Rang Tram Bau 5:20
21. Dan Bau Vietnam: Rider In The Sky - Live 5:25



'Hó! Roady Music From Vietnam is a stunning document, celebration even, of Saigon´s resilient street life 20 years after the US´s defeat. The appeal of American pop, most likely heard leaking out of squalid girlie bars, is evident in its impact on these electric guitar wielding grannie buskers with backpack amps, bar singers, Vietblues players, hustlers, funeral drum´n´bass combos and bizarre US folk-ethnic fusioneers, taped amid screeching traffic noise, cop whistles, barking hawkers and insect-buzzing heat. Just as the jungle reclaimed detritus left behind by G.I.s, so these musicians have remolded fading American melodies around Vietnamese templates, transforming them into vivid, shocking pink Vietpop and street music. And these slithering brass tunings and clattering percussion of Saigon´s funeral combos are truly worth dying for.' - midheaven

that pirty much sums it. a thoroughly encroyable correction of street musique from vietnam. after awhile every single song is good. 320 hugs to hans