Trouble Bound. Part of my ongoing Porch Sittin' series. A theme mix of murder and mayhem. Americana murder ballads and songs of people going bad or just getting into trouble.
You can listen to this mix from the link below to Mixcloud.
1. The Blasters - Trouble Bound (Hard Line, 1985)
2. Steve Earle - I Feel Alright (I Feel Alright, 1996)
3. Richard Thompson - I Feel So Good (Rumor and Sigh, 1991)
4. Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper (Nebraska, 1982)
5. Peter Case - Put Down That Gun (The Man With The Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar, 1989)
6. T-Bone Burnett - Fatally Beautiful (Proof Through The Night, 1983)
7. The BoDeans - She's A Runaway (Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, 1986)
8. John Hiatt - Tennessee Plates (Slow Turning, 1988)
9. The Long Ryders - Gunslinger Man (Two Fisted Tales, 1987)
10. Tony Joe White - Prisoner (Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Recordings, 2006)
11. Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat (American III: Solitary Man, 2000)
12. Nick Cave & PJ Harvey - Henry Lee (Murder Ballads, 1996)
13. Tom Waits - Fish In The Jailhouse (Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, 2006)
14. Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer (Furr, 2008)
15. Old Crow Medicine Show - Methamphetamine (Tennessee Pusher, 2008)
16. M. Ward - Jailbird (Hold Time, 2009)
17. Todd Snider - Tillamook County Jail (East Nashville Skyline, 2004)
18. The Del McCoury Band - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Del and the Boys, 2001)
19. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Drunken Poet's Dream (A: Enlighntment B: Endarkment, Hint: There Is No C, 2010)
20. Jim White - Handcuffed To A Fence In Mississippi (No Such Place, 2001)
21. A.A. Bondy - How Will You Meet Your End? (American Heart, 2007)