Crime & Punishment / Various Crime & Punishment / Various CD

Themed two CD set with Disc One devoted to songs about crime and Disc Two containing songs about punishment. Compiled and annotated by celebrated journalist Kris Needs, this set draws on five decades of great American music, including blues (John Lee Hooker, Blind Willie McTell), country (The Louvin Brothers, Johnny Cash) and folk (Odetta, Woody Guthrie).

1. Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby 2. Macon Ed ; Tampa Joe - Worrying Blues 3. Frank Hutchison - Stackalee 4. Sippie Wallace - Murder's Gonna Be My Crime 5. The Carolina Buddies - the Murder of the Lawson Family 6. Josh White - Lord Randall, My Son 7. Dave Van Ronk - Duncan and Brady 8. Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns to Town 9. John Lee Hooker (As Texas Slim) - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman 10. Homer Harris - I'm Gonna Cut Your Head Mama 11. Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral and My Trial 12. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie 13. The Everly Brothers - Down in the Willow Garden 14. The Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl 15. Dick Justice - Henry Lee 16. Blind Willie McTell - Dying Crapshooter's Blues 17. Lead Belly - John Hardy 18. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Star Bootlegger 19. The Blue Sky Boys - Down on the Banks of the Ohio 20. Cisco Houston - the Killer 21. Peetie Wheatstraw - Gangster's Blues 22. Leroy Carr - Prison Bound Blues 23. Charley Patton - High Sheriff Blues 24. Paul Robeson - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 25. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit 26. Bama - How I Got in the Penitentiary 27. 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye ; Hard Hair - Early in the Mornin' 28. Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues 29. Fred McMullen - Dekalb Chain Gang 30. Lillie Mae - Buggy Jail House Blues 31. Victoria Spivey - Murder in the First Degree 32. Mattie May Thomas - Workhouse Blues 33. Memphis Jug Band (As the Memphis Sheiks) - He's in the Jailhouse Now 34. The Crickets - I Fought the Law 35. Jimmie Patton - Okie's in the Pokie 36. Hurricane Harry - the Last Meal 37. 22 ; Group - It Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad 38. Lightnin' Hopkins - Jail House Blues 39. Texas Alexander - Penitentiary Moan Blues 40. Hambone Willie Newbern - Shelby County Workhouse Blues 41. Blind Lemon Jefferson - Prison Cell Blues 42. Peg Leg Howell ; Jim Hill - Ball and Chain Blues 43. Ernest Stoneman - Kenny Wagner's Surrender 44. The New Lost City Ramblers - Tom Dooley 45. Odetta - the Gallows Pole 46. Woody Guthrie - Slip Knot 47. 22 ; Group - Old Dollar Mamie 48. Tangle Eye - Tangle Eye Blues 49. Mattie May Thomas - Big Mac from MacAmere 50. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground