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• [1] perri March 21, 2008 - 10:50AM

  How interesting. I'm kind of reminded the recent phenomenon of mysterious murders of Mexican grupero musicians who sing about violence, love and drugs.

  
  
• [2] Ashley from NYC March 21, 2008 - 02:02PM

  Please make sure to play some songs by the Blue Sky Boys during this segment!

  
  
• [3] Jeffrey Slott from East Elmhurst March 21, 2008 - 02:20PM

  Bob Dylan wrote "The Ballad of Hollis Brown", "Oxford Town", "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll", et.al. Why are you bringing up "The Time They Are a'Changing"? What does that song have anything with the topic at hand?

  
  
• [4] Paul from nyc March 21, 2008 - 02:23PM

  I began learning about this form of music when I was in high school after hearing a song called Country Death Song by the violent femmes. I think the instincts that can be heard in this rural music lives on, and can be heard in the songs of bands we label "goth."

  
  
• [5] andrea sandvig from nyc March 21, 2008 - 02:27PM

  remember "Tell Lauri I Love Her" and "Tell Mary I Miss her". Teenage tragedy songs from the early 60's.

  
  
• [6] William Scruggs from Edison, NJ March 21, 2008 - 02:27PM

  In the early part of the 20th Century a New Brunswick, NJ pastor and a member of his church's choir were found murdered under an apple tree in neighboring Somerset County. This resulted in one of the first trials "of the century". I was told the song 'Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me' was inspired by this incident.

  William Kunstler wrote a book about this case in the 60s.

  
  
• [7] Aaron Schloff from brooklyn usa March 21, 2008 - 02:32PM

  As first poster notes, don't forget about corridos, including but not liminted to narcocorridos.

  
  
• [8] Emily Hurster from Piscataway, NJ March 21, 2008 - 02:32PM

  Would the songs by Malvina Reynolds be categorized as Murder Ballads? or would she be categorized as protest songs?

  
  
• [9] Julia del Palacio from New York March 21, 2008 - 02:35PM

  The corrido is a Mexican tradition that has been around since the 19th century. Many many corridos are disaster songs, and the songs from the 1920s and 1930s are very mournful. Contrabando y traición is a very recent one. The songs presented in the program sound very similar to the 1930s corridos.

  
  
• [10] perri March 22, 2008 - 12:00PM

  Does "Disco Inferno" count as a disaster song? ;-)