Side A
Artist	Song
The Decemberists	Culling Of The Fold
Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Down By The River
International Submarine Band	Miller's Cave
The Banks Of Red Roses	The Battlefield Band
Doc Watson	Omie Wise
Tom Waits	Two Sisters
Ewan McColl	The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
Alasdair Roberts	On The Banks of Red Roses
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (ft. PJ Harvey)	Knoxville Girl
John Lee Hooker	I'm Bad Like Jesse James
Richard Thompson	Dragging The River
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Everly Brothers	Down In The Willow Garden
Jim White	The Wound That Never Heals
Burl Ives	Edward
PJ Harvey	Down By The Water
Old Blind Dogs	The Bonnie Banks O Fordie
Ute Lemper	Little Water Song
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (ft. Kylie Minogue)	Where The Wild Roses Grow
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman	Dreadful Wind And Rain
Johnny Cash	Banks of the Ohio
Joan Baez	Mary Hamilton
Beth Orton	Blood Red River

Comment:

I have always, always held a special place in my heart for murder ballads, specifically the ones set down by the water. I started compiling these songs one day a while back, inspired primarily by the Neil Young track. For one reason or another I set it aside and it wasn't until I recently heard the b-side "Culling Of The Fold" and the lovely new Tom Waits song that I decided to put the rest of it together. Several of the songs are variations on the same stories. I thought about including "Henry Lee," but the most popular version of the song has the title character's body tossed in a well rather than the river. Shucks.. At any rate, the Everly Brothers tune is a personal favorite.

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