Various Artists - Lamkin: Versions & Variants Across the Northern Hemisphere [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: DEATH054CD
Barcode: 5050580780439
Release Date: 06 May 2022
Genre: Folk/Field Recordings

01: Aunt Nancy Prather Beau Lamkins
02: Sabra Bare Hampton Bolenkin
03: Mary Jane Dyson Lord Daniels
04: Floyd Carpenter Loud Cain (Bow Lamkins)
05: Lydia Gyderson False Lankfear
06: Reuben Edwards O Lampkins
07: Adam Morris Lamkin
08: Lily Delorme Lamkin
09: Bertha Eldred False Lamkin
10: Mose Harris The Limkin
11: Clarence Bennet Bold Ankin
12: Nathan Hatt Lincoln Was a Mason
13: Irene Carlisle False Lampkins
14: Nathan & Rena Hicks Bol' Lamkin
15: Bobby McMillon Bo Lamkin
16: Terry Yarnell Lamkin
17: Mary Sweeney False Lampin

Folklorist Derek Piotr teams with Death is Not the End for a third outing, this time plumbing the depths of every archive from West Virginia University to the British Library in search of versions of the ballad Lamkin. Following the template set by Charlie Seeger with his seminal Barbara Allen compilation, Piotr's collection outs versions of the bloody ballad from the last ninety years; most of these renditions haven't been heard by anyone but their original recordists for decades.