Boats will sink, despite our toil
Flood, drought, and disease
Fire burns. Blood will boil
And then it all will freeze.
Who knows what shall come thereafter?
I've got songs about disasters.
9:00
1.J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - The Fatal Wreck Of The Bus (2:48)
Yes, disasters! Tonight's show is all about things blowing up and people dying.
3.Ernest Stoneman - Kenney Wagner's Surrender (2:23)
4.Kentucky Ramblers - The Unfortunate Brakeman (2:26)
5.Bob Miller - The Crash Of The Akron (2:31)
6.Carson Robison Trio - The Porto Rico Storm (2:34)
7.Paul Miles & The Red Fox Chasers - Wreck On The Mountain Road (2:37)
8.Riley Puckett - Altoona Freight Wreck (2:37)
9.Skillet Lickers - Casey Jones (2:48)
10.Dennis McGee & Ernest Fruge - Lanse Des Belaires (2:51)
11.Dixon Brothers - Down With The Old Canoe (2:52)
12.Cap, Andy & Flip - McBeth Mine Explosion (2:52)
13.Clarence Ashley - Naomi Wise (2:53)
14.Skillet Lickers, Riley Puckett (vocal) - Wreck Of The Old 97 [Riley Puckett] (2:54)
15.Green Bailey - The Santa Barbara Earthquake (2:57)
16.William & Versey Smith - When That Great Ship Went Down (2:57)
17.Fred Pendleton & The West Virginia Melody Boys - The Wreck Of The Westbound Airliner (2:58)
18.Will Bennett - Railroad Bill (2:59)
19.Blind Alfred Reed - The Wreck Of The Virginian (2:59)
20.Fiddlin' John Carson - Dixie Boll Weevil (2:59)
21.W.A. Lindsey & Alvin Condor - Boll Weavil (3:00)
Awful things happened! It's like CNN but in banjo form!
10:00
23.Bob Miller - Fingerprints Upon the Windowpane (3:00)
24.Dykes Magic City Trio - Frankie (3:02)
25.Fiddlin' John Carson - Storm That Struck Miami (3:02)
26.J. H. Howell's Carolina Hillbillies - Burning of the Cleveland School (3:02)
27.Martin & Roberts - Ryecove Cyclone (3:03)
28.Elder Curry - Memphis Flu (3:03)
29.Robert Hicks - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues (3:04)
30.Ashley & Foster - Frankie Silvers (3:05)
31.Ernest Stoneman - The Fate Of Talmadge Osborne (3:06)
32.Charley Patton - Mississippi Boll Weevil (3:06)
33.Earl Johnson - The Little Grave in Georgia (3:07)
34.Ernest Stoneman - The Story of the Mighty Mississippi (3:08)
35.Roy Harvey & The North Carolina Ramblers - The Bluefield Murder (3:08)
36.Kelly Harrell - Henry Clay Beattie (3:09)
37.Grayson & Whitter - Tom Dooley (3:10)
38.John Hammond - Pretty Polly (3:11)
39.Wilmer Watts - Fate of Rhoda Sweeten (3:11)
40.Dykes Magic City Trio - Poor Ellen Smith (3:12)
41.Charlie Poole - Baltimore Fire (3:12)
42.Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks (3:13)
43.trinity river song (2:50)
But let's be honest: people died and so the folks that lived sang about it.
11:00
45.Elders McIntorsh & Edwards - The Flood of 1927 (3:13)
46.Ernest Stoneman - The Titanic (3:14)
47.Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (6:29) by request
48.Tom Waits - Big Joe & Phantom 309 (5:21) also by request
49.Carver Boys - The Brave Engineer (3:16)
50.Cliff Carlisle - Wreck Of Number 52 (3:16)
51.Uncle Dave Macon - Tennessee Tornado (3:14)
52.Bill Cox - Fate Of Will Rogers & Wiley Post (3:17)
53.Andrew Jenkins - Alabama Flood (3:18)
54.Charley Patton - Dry Well Blues (3:20)
55.Blind Alfred Reed - Explosion in the Fairmount Mine (3:21)
56.Hayes Shepherd - Peddler And His Wife (3:24)
57.Frank Hutchison - Last Scene Of The Titanic (3:30)
58.Bob Miller - Ohio Prison Fire (3:27)
59.Alfred Reed - Fate Of Chris Lively And Wife (3:25)
60.Richard Rabbitt Brown - The Sinking Of The Titanic (3:48)
