Artist	Song
The Louvin Brothers	Knoxville Girl
Doc Watson	Tom Dooley
Jimmy Dean	Big Bad John
International Submarine Band	Miller's Cave
Johnny Preston	Running Bear
Bobby Darin	Artificial Flowers
The Folksmen	Blood on the Coal
Bob Dylan	Stackalee
George Jones	Radio Lover
Johnny Cash	Cocaine
Johnny Cash	Delia
Frank Sinatra	One For My Baby
Alan Sherman	The Streets Of Miami
Bobbie Gentry	Ode to Billie Joe
Bob Dylan	Clothesline Saga
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris	Green Green Grass of Home
Nelstone's Hawaiians	The Fatal Flower Garden
The Weavers	Goodnight Irene
The Everly Brothers	Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
Simon & Garfunkel	The Sound of Silence

Comment:

This is another mix inspired by my five year old son. He has taken a liking to Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John, so I decided a tragedy mix is in order. Actually, its only occasionally tragic in the Shakespearean sense, more often these songs are merely melodramatic. Running Bear and Artificial Flowers are two of my wife's childhood favorites.
This Bobby Darin hit has to be one of the strangest songs I've ever heard in my life. Alan Sherman's Streets of Miami is a song I loved when I was a kid, a song I didn't realize was supposed to be funny, despite the laughter of the audience in the background. What is this strange craving young children have for tragedy? Why are Grimm's fairy tales so grim?
The Simon and Garfunkel is a recent discovery for me, this version is from their first album, Wednesday Morning 3am, note that the title is singular, The Sound of Silence, not Sounds of Silence, as it became on their popular second album.
In closing, I just want to encourage everyone who hasn't already to go out and get them a copy of the Louvins Brothers' album, Tragic Songs of Life, which is the source of Knoxville Girl. The Louvins were deeply into Appalachian darkness.

My thanks as well go out to Joey De Vivre for his recent encouragement.

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