Track Listing

1. Murder Ballad, Pt. 1
2. Murder Ballad, Pt. 2: "Now Let Me Tell You... "
3. Murder Ballad, Pt. 3: "I Know You've Got My Man... "
4. Murder Ballad, Pt. 4: "They Brought That Gal to the Prison Gate... "
5. Murder Ballad, Pt. 5: "Gal, When I Get Through, You'll Think I'm a ..."
6. Murder Ballad, Pt. 6: "Ask My Sister, Please Don't Be Like Me... "
7. Murder Ballad, Pt. 7: "Goodbye to the World: I Know I'm Gone... "
8. Fickle Fay Creep
9. Jungle Blues
10. King Porter Stomp (No. 2)
11. Sweet Peter
12. Hyena Stomp
13. Wolverine Blues (Begun)
14. Wolverine Blues (Concluded)
15. State and Madison
16. Pearls (Begun)
17. Pearls (Concluded)
18. Bert Williams

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214733 in Music
• Released on: 1993-11-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

historically important
The piano solos on this CD are historically and musically important, recorded for the Library of Congress late in Morton's career. The piano solos on tracks 8-18 are excellent, and the half-hour blues "The Murder Ballad" is--interesting. However, be warned--the lyrics to "The Murder Ballad" are crude and possibly obscene. I am rating this as highly as I am because of the quality of the later material.

Morton Library Of Congress Recordings
These recordings allowed for what record companies at the time would not allow. Which was to have the songs the way they were actually played in the juke joints and night clubs wherever mr. jelly roll found himself. The obscene lyrics the previous reviewer speaks so lowly of are in no part offensive unless you have ears that should have never gotten this far, for if you let that detract you from the music i have nothing but sympathy for you since you can't sit back, listen and HEAR the music as it was actually played like then.