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February 13, 2020 - 8:15am

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clayv

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During the mid-1970s, the Grateful Dead saga was unfolding like a Greek classic. The Sisyphean Wall Of Sound had nearly broken the band. From it spawned a Medusa head of countless side projects, all deliciously fruitful but woefully not the same as the whole. The chorus lay in wait, pondering the reemergence of their heroes, and wondering if "THE LAST ONE" had really been it...

But in early 1976, Apollonian light and healing would shine upon our intrepid wanderers once again. No more epic battles for the people with cops and lines and tightness, the Dead would return triumphant in smallness, playing intimate theaters and renting equipment along the way. No more ticket scams and greedy promoters, they'd give back with first ever mail-order ticket program, one that had a few kinks to work out but eventually served the fans well.

Musically, June 1976 signaled a Golden Age of harmony and prosperity for the Dead. It marked an Odysseusian-like return for Mickey Hart. Donna Jean was in lock-step with the sirens' call. Jerry and Bob delivered orphic delight with solo musings like "Mission In The Rain" (the only tour they ever played it on), "The Wheel," and "Cassidy," emboldened by group effort. There was fresh repertoire from Blues For Allah, breathing new life to the Dead's continually morphing sound - as Weir once said of the '76 tour, they wanted to play "a little bit of all of it." Old favorites were re-envisioned with cascading tempos and unique sequencing, making the crowd question if they'd ever heard these songs before. And there was comfort and joy in the familiarity of watching the band make it up as they went along. By all means, it was clear that the bacchanalia of live Dead would reign on.

And now the revelry from this epoch, evidenced by the near-studio quality sound captured on two-track live recordings by Betty Cantor-Jackson, lives on, bolstered by Jeffrey Norman's HDCD mastering. It's housed for posterity in a handsome box featuring original art work by Justin Helton. It’s documented in liners by Jesse Jarnow and photos by Grant Gouldon. And it’s ready for a spot on your shelf.

As part of our pre-order for this Dead.net exclusive boxed set, we'll be delivering downloads of each listening party - one for each show included in JUNE 1976 - to purchasers from now until the March 20th release. Order at any time before release and you'll receive all the listening parties to date.

Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 12,000

What's Inside:

5 Previously Unreleased Complete Shows On 15 Discs

Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/10/76

Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/11/76

Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/14/76

Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/15/76

Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ 6/19/76

Sourced from Two-Track Master Tapes, Recorded By Betty Cantor-Jackson

Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman

Restoration and Speed Correction by Plangent Processes

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April 4, 2020 - 4:28pm

#761

deadegad

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Lot's of great ideas for box sets. . ..

And I would buy all of them! Watkins Glen complete with the other bands and sound check would be, if, I had to pick only one, would be The One! Yet RFK 73 would be a runner up.

I still daydream about Radio City/Warfield tapes being rediscovered.
April 4, 2020 - 3:30pm

#762

Shadeyguy

Joined:
February 28, 2018

Requests

And since this seems to be request time, I'll throw my hat in the ring for san antonio 72. I think its 11-26? Fantastic dark star, playing, etc. Unfortunately the only version available sounds like hot garbage. Definitely needs an upgrade
April 4, 2020 - 3:20pm

#763

Shadeyguy

Joined:
February 28, 2018

Hello Deadland!

Hope everyone is doing well, I'm just hanging out digging on this box. It's a bit of slow process when no one in the house but me "gets it". "Theres 5 versions of the same song in 5 shows?" Haha. Also listening to some anniversary shows, love me some 4/2/73. And just to switch it up I've been listening to the island tour. I was lucky enough to hit the first 2. If u want some deep outer space, I highly recommend the twist from 4/2, man that version takes me places! Stay safe, and keep washing those hands!!
April 4, 2020 - 2:11pm

#764

KeithFan2112

Joined:
August 6, 2014

Releases

Just give me the remaining Dark Star shows Plangentized ASAP. Give it its own series. Or make a big box set. Or periodic mini box sets. The rest will take care of itself.

I'm also on board with the Watkins Glen release that was mentioned. And the RFK '73 double dose. I'm also good with the April '71 box set idea - and make sure it's engineered to sound exactly like Ladies and Gentlemen. Might as well mention Port Chester '71 since the wish list is out.

At the moment I'm listening to Dave's Picks 17, Selland July '74. Keith sounds so good on Weather Report Suite. I've been a big fan of this show since it arrived on my doorstep. I wish Bertha wasn't fucked up. If I had my old easy CD Creator software, I'd be able to patch it by overdubbing the opening chords. Anyway....It's been a few months since I put this one on. Now I'm wondering if I like it better than the 1974 shows in the Pacific Northwest box set. I may need to do a side-by-side comparison. I'm also experiencing some runner's high at the moment, and that never hurts a show. I know it's not a popular choice but it just catches me the right way. I wonder why they didn't call "Jam" "Spanish Jam". Blah blah, blah blah blah blah.....

Ironically Carlo, it was a Sunshine Daydream sitting on a Barnes & Noble shelf that converted me from being a casual fan to holding a PhD in Europe '72. Ah yes, that fateful day in B & N. I've barely put another band on since April 2014. Something weird happened in January of this year and I started listening to the Best of INXS. But by February the spell had passed and I'm right back on the bus with Cowboy Neil at the wheel.
April 4, 2020 - 2:01pm

#765

carlo13

Joined:
April 26, 2017

Oro

I agree with you on what you are saying but general releases dont do well in brick and mortar stores. I have seen a sunshine daydream veneta at barnes and noble sit there for months with no buyers. Same with a few other that dont sell (Cornell and long strange trip vid.). Its weird.
April 4, 2020 - 1:52pm

#766

hendrixfreak

Joined:
February 26, 2014

Greetings bob t, could you extrapolate on your remark?

"I wish but i don't have confidence on the June 10, 1973 show getting release."

I read way back that the GD and ABB had put together a box of the best from 6/9, 6/10, 7/27 and 7/28, but nixed it. Of course, it's harder to do those deals with two bands and sets of heirs. But why do you say this of 6/10?

Just curious. Have you read something about the tape or other issue?
April 4, 2020 - 1:29pm

#767

billy the kid

Joined:
December 3, 2019

Junior Brown / Party Lights

Great tune, check it out!
April 4, 2020 - 1:29pm

#768

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

The Futures here, we are it...

Great points all, and though I agree on saturation and absorption issues, I think they could step up production if they wanted to. Yes the production team are truly wizards, but at the same time it’s not rocket science. If they have the tapes and know their good to use, the rest is doable.
Personally, I think adding one or 2 more Dave’s a year, and doing say one “bigger” box i.e., June 76, and one smaller i.e., RFK 89 a year, if staggered properly, and marketed properly (like dont release 2 competing sets in a year?and price accordingly) could work.
Maybe not 2 “boxes” every year, maybe years like this with 2 50th anniversary albums you don’t do 2, but say years that don’t have a 50th release get another release/box/from the vault? Whatever....but something above and beyond say a Dave’s or Dicks type release.
Sure you might not be able to do 15 or 20K units, but you could make up for with the additional releases...
I mean I agree with all you have said, except at current pace they could run out of hardcore absolute buyers so that by 20 years they can’t even sell out a 5K box run? Just a thought.....
As far as the rest, I get what Jim’s saying about the quality and easy accessibility issues, but I think if they could figure out some kind of economy of scale to make it work, so that you could at least get out some of the later source shows, enough folks would want at least certain shows, say ones they were at, or those that were really stand outs.
So if they could find a way to digitize and improve quality enough, with added packaging/marketing, to be enough of a step up above the online stuff, while of course turning at least a fair profit, it might work?
I think there’s enough low tech geezers like me that would totally buy enough shows overall to do this. I’m not going to spend time I don’t have downloading tons of stuff via my horrible net service. But I would buy say a few dozen ala carte releases like a Road trips or even the download series quality, but on a disc. (I’m talking full or most of shows here, not chop jobs).
With everything digitized, using a low budget universal packaging system you could do say pre-sale order only.
Like “next month only, order your 7/13/84” ...you get your money up front, and you don’t have to guess about run numbers. You take your universal packaging, change the labeling slightly, and you sell however many so that at least it will pay for itself. Might not be huge money maker, but you repay the fans for 50 plus years of ridiculous spending, plus in some ways you keep those interested that aren’t hardcore, or all ready feel they have plenty of older shows.
Just look at how well the response was for the Giants box? No ones going to argue that any of this would compare or replace say FW69 or E72 leval stuff, but I would argue that there is potentially enough interest for late generation folks who aren’t going to drop $200 for a 1970 Beatty box, but who would definetly buy the 3 or 4 ala carte shows they were at from later years. 4 or 5 $30 purchases, along with added shipping profits, by 10s of thousands of buyers overall, could equal or surpass the high production limited profits of said $200 box.
Sorry, rambling, I guess I’m trying to say their ignoring a potentially large audience by only offering product they don’t want!
Obviously it means doing this somehow affordably/profitably, and I also think you have to do it sooner than later because I agree with Kid that someday it will all be upgraded and availabilie via download, but will there still be a economically viable market by then? Who knows, hell, no way I thought 30 years ago the Dead would still be this relevant now....
Anyway, just a thought, and interesting stuff for sure!

Thanks and R.I.P. Eliis and the Great Bill Withers...
May the four winds blow them safely home!
April 4, 2020 - 1:15pm

#769

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

Black Mirror....

....some awesome stuff there. My favorite was the episode where everyone's life status was dependent on other peoples upvotes/down votes and that lady just gets wrecked.
"Science Fiction?"
edit. Found it. "Nosedive". Season 3. Ep 1. A must see imo.
The USS Callister is also 👌. Season 4. Ep 1.
April 4, 2020 - 12:14pm

#770

deadegad

Joined:
February 2, 2011

Europe Autumn 1990 Box?

Now I could go for that!

Dear Dave an N.Y.C. September 1979 @ MSG would make a great mini box set!!! Think about, please kind Sir.

John Perry Barlow

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During the mid-1970s, the Grateful Dead saga was unfolding like a Greek classic. The Sisyphean Wall Of Sound had nearly broken the band. From it spawned a Medusa head of countless side projects, all deliciously fruitful but woefully not the same as the whole. The chorus lay in wait, pondering the reemergence of their heroes, and wondering if "THE LAST ONE" had really been it...

But in early 1976, Apollonian light and healing would shine upon our intrepid wanderers once again. No more epic battles for the people with cops and lines and tightness, the Dead would return triumphant in smallness, playing intimate theaters and renting equipment along the way. No more ticket scams and greedy promoters, they'd give back with first ever mail-order ticket program, one that had a few kinks to work out but eventually served the fans well.

Musically, June 1976 signaled a Golden Age of harmony and prosperity for the Dead. It marked an Odysseusian-like return for Mickey Hart. Donna Jean was in lock-step with the sirens' call. Jerry and Bob delivered orphic delight with solo musings like "Mission In The Rain" (the only tour they ever played it on), "The Wheel," and "Cassidy," emboldened by group effort. There was fresh repertoire from Blues For Allah, breathing new life to the Dead's continually morphing sound - as Weir once said of the '76 tour, they wanted to play "a little bit of all of it." Old favorites were re-envisioned with cascading tempos and unique sequencing, making the crowd question if they'd ever heard these songs before. And there was comfort and joy in the familiarity of watching the band make it up as they went along. By all means, it was clear that the bacchanalia of live Dead would reign on.

And now the revelry from this epoch, evidenced by the near-studio quality sound captured on two-track live recordings by Betty Cantor-Jackson, lives on, bolstered by Jeffrey Norman's HDCD mastering. It's housed for posterity in a handsome box featuring original art work by Justin Helton. It’s documented in liners by Jesse Jarnow and photos by Grant Gouldon. And it’s ready for a spot on your shelf.

As part of our pre-order for this Dead.net exclusive boxed set, we'll be delivering downloads of each listening party - one for each show included in JUNE 1976 - to purchasers from now until the March 20th release. Order at any time before release and you'll receive all the listening parties to date.

Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 12,000

What's Inside:

5 Previously Unreleased Complete Shows On 15 Discs
Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/10/76
Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/11/76
Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/14/76
Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/15/76
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ 6/19/76
Sourced from Two-Track Master Tapes, Recorded By Betty Cantor-Jackson
Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
Restoration and Speed Correction by Plangent Processes

Curious Charlie & Warner

Did you buy the 45 single collection? I just my 45 the other day. Nice art on this one and I loved the purple vinyl!

Downloads

I received all three and downloaded them to my galaxy but t I can't get them to play. It's a phone problem I'm sure.

Looking for a Real Sinatra Fan

There is a Sinatra collection, the complete reprise collection I think. It's a 20 cd collection. Somehow I only have disc 1-12. Anyone have them all?

Thanks

Road Trips - Austin 1971

I'm sure the word is out by now, but in case you missed it Real Gone Music is re-releasing all the road trips shows in reverse order. The format is CD. I missed all the Road Trips when they were originally released so its nice to get the chance to pick these up. The 11-15-71 Austin show is on its way now.

https://www.realgonemusic.com/news/2020/3/2/grateful-dead-road-trips-vo…

@Dennis...shoo-be-doo-be-doo...

I have quite a few Sinatra boxes...I'll check which ones when I get home from the Salt Mine later...

Austin 11/15/71 Road Trips

This show is a winner from start to finish, what a killer of a show! If anybody missed out on this one the first time around they get a second chance to get it. The same with 2/14/68 Road Trips, what a rocker!

Carlo-downloads

I'm pretty sure it said something about downloading to a laptop or desktop because phones dont support the unzipping necessary for these files. I had the same problem as well

Listening Party Downloads

Another thing about them is they are in m4a format, not mp3, or wav, or flac, or anything I actually use. So, if you're like me, after you download them to a computer, you will possibly have to change the format. I had to download a program for that. Wish they'd just send a link or code to get the download in mp3 or just allow the advertisement of the box set through musical previews to be free, and give the pre-order folks some June 76 filler tracks. But that's my pipe dream.

Hey Jim

Sorry. I was trying to be funny should have added a 'haha'

Shadeyguy

Thanks. It figures.

Road trips

Were these limited editions when they first came out or mabey subs.?

Carlo

Road Trips were not limited edition, but a certain number were made and eventually sold out.
I didn’t initially buy them because they were compilations and not full shows. I started buying them when full shows started being released. If you subscribed you got a bonus disc.
At a later time (around 2011-12) I got an email on 4/1 that they were having an ‘April Ship of Fools Sale’. I think that you got 20% off and free shipping that day. I ordered all of the compilation RT’s that I didn’t have, but didn’t get the bonus discs.
I only got the Fall 77 RT a year or so ago when it was on this site and still with the bonus disc.

Road trips

If you bought them early you received the bonus disc. The bonus disc don't come with the Real Gone Music ones. I did not buy them all. I did buy, 2/14/68, 12/28/79, 11/15/71, 5/15/70, Denver 1973, May 1969, 6/9/76, and they are all fantastic!

Road trips

Interesting guys. Thanks.

@Dennis...

Sorry but I don't have the Reprise Years set...what I do have is the Complete Capitol Years and various best of sets both in Lossless & MP3....oh and the Columbia years set too...

After five years....

....I finally upgraded my smartphone from a galaxy S6 to the S20+. No baby steps here. Almost overwhelming. Almost.
Re RT. I have so much GOGD, I tend to forget about those. Blessing? Curse? I have most of them. Most bonus discs as well. I was missing the vol 3.3 bonus until MDJim/JiminMD/John Deere Hot Tub time machine dude blessed me four years ago.
Lookit Shadyguy. Fitting in like a glove. Welcome!!
Working backwards here and editing on the fly. Sinatra Box you say? I have a friend who would give a kidney for more Frank. Gonna look him up and share the news. No kidney required.

Re: BillyTKid

Concur.
100% with 2/14/68 and 11/15/71. BOTH EPIC.

These aforementioned Road Trips are La Creme de La Creme... aka delicious cheese curds

Sixtus

PS - Denver '73....is 'Hot Damn!'. I especially love the bonus material on that one as well as the whole release it's ridiculous. And 6/9/76 is, in my opinion, one of the best of all of them. It makes an amazing bookend for This Impending Box.

OK. I relent....

....Denver '73 it is. I recall it having a sweet UJB encore.
Second set. Half Step -> Playin' -> El Paso -> Playin' -> Wharf Rat -> Playin' -> Dew. Truckin' -> Nobody's Fault -> GDTRFB -> Saturday Night. Enc UJB. Yup. Just about sums it up. Lordy.

re: BOC

Since you mentioned BOC, I have been meaning to get back into them. Are there any good torrent sites for their early 1980's shows?

Road Trips

Surprisingly, the bonus discs were available from an online British shop I used to buy Dead releases from-Spin Records. Accepting the fact that they were often compilations of runs, there was some great music released. All of those already mentioned, plus, at least, the 6/16/74 and 6/18/74. which is one of my favourite releases in any format.The one from October 1977 is pretty good, too.

The worse thing about them was the brown cardboard packets they used to come in. They were packed so tightly I had to use a knife to cut said packet to get the cd out.

The race is on

With the warehouse FUBAR'd, which will I get first the June 76 Box or the coronavirus?

Sixtus' Picks Revived

Hey y'all. Sorry it's taken so long to gather together the12 volumes of Sixtus Picks along with a track listing – since that part of this conversation I've been in Dallas helping my mom transition into hospice care. Bittersweet of course, but she's an inspiration. Anyway, here a link to Six's great mashups. I re-numbered them so that they display in dropbox in correct order. I usually lean to listening to whole shows, but it is amazing how mesmerizing and surprising and tasty these jammed-out volumes are. THANKS AGAIN SIXTUS! Onward.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zjp65al8yuocmil/AAAe6zf_UG4OwKRJYLZkTc9Ba?dl…

jeff and the nappy

First, thanks for the lookup on the Sinatra front. I have an incredible shitload of Frankie, but where ever the COMPLETE reprise collection siphoned in from it lacked the last 8 disc. I see the collection out there for sale, but I'm struggling to remain married,,,,,,, so. I have the Reprise and Capitol collections. The Complete Reprise contains the songs Frank didn't think good enough to release, but the label or the family said they're good enough to sell :-)

Jeff - Thanks for posting a link to the Sixtus Collection. I have the first 6 in stock, nice to have them all. If I knew you were going to be in Dallas, I'd have invited you over.

Finally, thanks Sixtus for putting this out there.

An Observation

Listening to Little Sadie (to death like I do) and it strikes me the killer in Little Sadie gets off quite easy. In Viola Lee Blues, him and his brothers got a lifetime there. Dupree thought his life was just about right. But Little Sadie's killer only gets 41 years! And he seem to have had no reason to kill her! At Dupress wanted a gold diamond ring,,, and not even for himself!

Dave's 15

I was enjoying Wharf Rat and then Donna joined in. She doesn't sound bad but I like this song a lot better with just Jerry singing. Ramble On Rose too. I bet she started inserting herself into more songs the longer she was in the band. You know what I mean like tell everyone that she's the backup singer so she should be in more songs? If you go back to the early 70s maybe even as late as 1974 she doesn't sing on Wharf Rat. But she's in the band. She's playing in the band.

Warehouse question?

I have not been following this thread: What is going on with this warehouse? I guess there will be shipping delays??

Another question: Any ideas why we have not seen any photos of the finished product yet?

Also regarding coronavirus please look into oxidative therapies such as ozone therapy and hydrogen peroxide therapies; likewise, herbs, minerals, and vitamins which are both antiviral and antibacterial. Stay safe community!

Road Trips

The Road Trips series is excellent. When it first came out I was put off by the fact they were not all complete shows. I even got in a little trouble over the debate of complete shows vs. compilations (that is a story for another time). When series started I was just as passionate regarding this band as I am now. So for the first few years these were being issued i bought some of the releases that were complete shows and fortunately I got the bonus discs with all of them. Funds got to be scarce for me I stopped purchasing them about halfway through the run.

Yet even though my passion remains high I am also much wiser these days. I definitely see the merit more so the value of any official release whether be of a complete show or compilation of shows. With wisdom and funds both increased I went a mission to get those releases I did not have. Thankfully for Real Gone Music and Ebay I have been to get just about all of the ones I was missing. Surprisingly I was able to acquire the bonus discs off of Ebay for reasonable prices. The only bonus disc I dont have is the one from Cleveland 12/6/73 with the mega Dark Star. Getting that disc on the secondary market costs mega dollars again likely because of the mega Dark Star.

I am sure most, if not all of you know that along with great music in these releases that there are tracks that when you combine them into a playlist it actually completes a whole set of a show. For example in the first issue - October 77, between the 2 discs and the bonus disc it completes the entire 2nd set of 10/16/77, along with a few 1st set songs. Plus there are the tracks from 10/11/77 that can be combined with hidden DP 29 tracks, which is certainly a treat especially for a show Dick Latvala regarded very highly.
The Fall of 79 has a similar combo of 2 CDs and bonus disc that when combined just about completes the 2nd set of 11/9/79. Then there is the summer 71 release bonus disc that when combined with DP 35 comprises a healthy portion of 8/6/71. Though I will say that for that 8/6/71 show, i do prefer the audience source.

Re: An Observation - Justice Ill Served???

Well.. I see.. Good Point Dennis. If I had to rank the songs, it would go Viola Lee Blues, Little Sadie then Stagger Lee - understanding this is just my personal preference.

The sentences in descending order were:

Viola Lee Blues, the crime isn't mentioned but some got six months, so we can assume it's barely a felony. "Me and my buddies got lifetime here" (Viola Lee got life). A major injustice.

In Little Sadie, the crime was murder in the first degree. Lee Brown got 41 years (not quite life.. we will call it halfway there).

In Stagger Lee, the crime was also first degree murder. Stagger Lee was not charged because he was basically a mob boss.. so he got nothing. Certainly an injustice, a judicial travesty of sorts.

..but there is some foreshadowing mentioned by the authors that alludes to a different ending although no proof is mentioned, the authors leave it up to us to figure it all out (as in many great songs).

_____________________________________

Stagger Lee ultimately got the Death Sentence but only after Mrs. DeLions shot him in the balls with her gun (we are lead to believe this was a 45). Getting shot in the balls with a 45 and then getting dragged off to city hall to face a what is most certainly a death sentence is ultimately the harshest penalty of the three.

In Little Sadie, his sentence was a little light, 42 years, probably out on parole in 20.. but it is probably within the state range in North Carolina. Typical sentences for a first degree murder range from 30 years to life. Although this isn't mentioned in the song, for the crime he committed he can expect to get beat up a lot in jail, so there's that.

In Viola Lee Blues, they get the harshest sentence of them all, the got "lifetime here" meaning life in prison. However, understanding that Noah Lewis was born in in the deep south in 1891and wrote Viola Lee Blues just before the Great Depression (it was recorded in 1928). As for the crime, since it is not mentioned.. it took some research but I do believe I was able to ferret out the facts. You see.. there is a similar event popularized by the movie Oh Brother, Where Art Thou where an overly harsh sentence was carried out in the Deep South and the three (me and my buddies) were not getting out.. and while the protagonist is serving his time and the great depression begins to ravage the country, his wife divorces him and gets engaged, he escapes from prison, finds his wife, gets pardoned by the Governor of Mississippi and we can only assume lives happily ever after.

So it all works out in the end, and we got the hit song Man of Constant Sorrow written by the Soggy Bottom Boys that was later covered by Jerry Garcia at several points in his career so the story becomes very much Grateful Dead Related.

Fear not, Dennis.. justice has a way of finding it's footing even when injustices occasionally rule the day. In fact.. that's how we got some of our favorite songs.

Last 5

Grand Funk Railroad-Grand Funk
Genesis-Bonus Disc from '70-'75 box
Genesis-Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Lenny Bruce-American
Dave Mason/Cass Elliott-S/T

And a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a wop-bam boom!!

Dennis/injustice in songs

Dennis what about Tom Dooley? He didn't kill poor Lori Foster and look what happened to him. "This time tomorrow morning where do you reckon I'll be, down in a lonesome valley , just swinging from a white oak tree.". Now that's injustice!

Viola Lee

Somehow, I always assumed it was the name of a penitentiary; However, there was a Viola Lee charged with running a
"disorderly" house(whorehouse) in June 1917, in Arizona. Two women and two men were also arrested...who knows? I'm still searching.

Lee Brown

Didn't he get 41 years and 41 days and nights?

An extra 6 weeks to think about what he'd done.

Dylan did a great version of this song on Bootleg Series Vol 10, which is probably my favorite of the whole series.

Picks & Crimes

JeffSmith - you're The Man for offering of The Volumes - I am glad the effort will not be lost to the ravages of time, but instead shared with All, as it should be. That's really cool.
Dennis - you are a music siphon the likes of which I have rarely seen!

Also enjoying this banter and thoughtfulness about 'the justice vs. injustice' present in some songs. I mean, think about it: those card players in Me and My Uncle got all shot up, over a game!
Poor fellers.

Sixtus

Billy the Kid & Tom Dooley

I believe Tom really did Laurie Foster

"I met her on the mountain, there I took her life
Met her on the mountain, stabbed her with my knife"

The Scottish version, kinda, he didn't kill her, but was betrayed by her. From a tune written by Jamie Macpherson while he waited to be hung. Updated by Robert Burns. I have The Corries doing it.

MacPherson's Rant
The Corries

Farewell ye dungeons dark and strong,
Farewell, farewell tae thee,
MacPhersons time will no be lang,
On yonder gallow's tree

It was by a woman's treachorous hands,
That I was condemned to dee,
She stood uben a windae ledge,
And a blanket threw o'er me