Music on 238

[pasotom]

M.B.
Great choices on the music tonight . Excuse Me has been a long time favorite ! Wayne is new to me but another great song . The murder ballade is an old & respected music form . My alltime # 1 is Knoxville Girl by the Louvin Brothers . At anyrate thanks for the Fun .
Paso Tom

[tombogan03884]

"Lord Randall" is, if I remember correctly, one of the first of what we would call "ballads" from around the 14th century, it's about a guy being poisoned to get him out of the line of succession in the family.

[Michael Bane]

amazing how long that tradition has been woven through English/Scots/Irish folk ballad tradition!

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[tombogan03884]

amazing how long that tradition has been woven through English/Scots/Irish folk ballad tradition!

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Music, or murder ?   

[Pathfinder]

Music, or AND murder ?   

FIFY

The Devil Ouisge Beth by Battlefield Band recounts the slaughter of Highlanders by lowlanders who found a hidden whiskey still and got drunk instead of fleeing after stealing all the lowlanders' stuff and cattle

Kind Hearts and Coronets is Alec Guiness' movie following Tom's comment about succession.

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[Green Mountain Gringo]

I'm a sucker for Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger masterpiece.

"It was the time of the preacher
In the year of '01
Now the preachin' is over
and the killin's begun"

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"...and they smiled at each other as he walked thru the door
and they died with their smiles on their faces....
...they died with a smile on their face"

[Solus]

amazing how long that tradition has been woven through English/Scots/Irish folk ballad tradition!

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Literature too.  Wasn't there a story about the murder of some Scottish King?  I think it was a play written around 1605 or so.