Unfortunate Rake / Various: Unfortunate Rake / Various

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Unfortunate Rake / Various

Artist:

Various Artists

Label:

Folkways Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

093070380523

Genre:

Country

Sub Genre:

Folk

Release Date:

2012-05-30

Number of Discs:

1

The story is basically this: A soldier is dying, evidently of venereal disease he contracted from a young woman, and he requests a funeral. Hear how this story has been spun over centuries into a whole collection of similarly themed songs, the earliest possibly dating to 1790. In this recording we are essentially witnessing the evolution of the Anglo-Saxon ballad tradition.

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