Murder Ballads Old and New: Book Release and Performance with Jon Langford, Sally Timms, Janet Bean, John Szymanski and more

Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic— our human need to document the horrors of the world around us.  The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and multiple styles, including punk, post-punk, alt-country, and folk. The book is a graveyard stroll past tombs both well-kept and half-hidden. Murder Ballads Old & New excavates facts about killers, victims, and the folkloric storytellers who disseminated their tales in song.

with performances by:
Jon Langford
John Szymanski
Sally Timms
Rick Sherry
Rachel Drew
Rick Rizzo
Janet Bean
John Mohr
Boiled in Lead
…and More!