Music: Crime Songs

[Xelebes]

Earl Heywood - The Legend of the Old Roman Line

 

[Xelebes]

Stompin' Tom Connors - Jenny Donnelly



Stompin' Tom Connors - Ben in the Pen

 

[Xelebes]

Jackie Shane - Any Other Way



Song came out in 1968, a year before legalisation of homosexuality in Canada.

 

[Xelebes]

Billie Holliday - Strange Fruit

 

[plank]

The Westies - Parolee


Springsteen or Dylan fans might like this.

 

[kook10]

 

[plank]

Crime Don't Pay

 

[plank]

Pretty Boy Floyd

 

[plank]

The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde

 

[Mescaleroman]

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

 

[plank]

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

 

[plank]

Jack Ruby

 

[plank]

Been Caught Stealing

 

[plank]

Arrested for Driving While Blind

 

[plank]

I Can't Drive 55

 

[Mescaleroman]

Tenpole Tudor - Who Killed Bambi

 

[TNT87]

Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

 

[Mescaleroman]

the Beautiful South - Woman in the Wall

 

[Jack Straw]

Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil

 

[Jack Straw]

Grateful Dead - Mama Tried, Mexicali Blues



And Merle Haggard’s version of Mama Tried

 

[Jack Straw]

Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol

 

[Jack Straw]

Tom Waits - 16 Shells from a thirty-ought-six

 

[Mescaleroman]

the Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight

 

[Ducks in a row]