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Death Of John Dillinger

from Caskets In The Cornfields by Bucky Halker

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    A limited edition compact disk with booklet. Each CD cover is done individuallly on a hand-letter press. The covers were designed by Tom Greensfelder and Rebecca Dudley and pressed by Amos Lee Kennedy.

    The CD features 12 folksongs from Illinois, all of them concerned with the subject of death and dying. Based on Bucky's years of research and collecting Illinois folksongs. Illinois has a unique folk music history that has been neglected by collectors, historians, musicians, and fans because it is both a Northern industrial state and a rural, agricultural, and Southern state as well. It stands at the crossroads of the nation - East, West, North, and South and was the center of the railroads, western migration, African American migration to the north, and European migration to the Heartland. As such, even it's songs pertaining to death and dying are unique and include death by tornades, Mississippi River floods, gangsters, steamboat accidents and blow ups, assassination, railroad and train wrecks, outlaws, and simple murder.

    The recording features a simple musical format with Bucky on guitar and vocals, Don Stiernberg on mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and vocals, and Tom "Pickles" Piekarski on bass and vocals. The trio rehearsed for a day and then went into the studio and recorded all the tracks live in two sessions. The idea was to keep it simple and very folky.

    Alas, don't assume it's sad and tear drops. There's humor and bombast and irony galore herein.

    Recorded September 2010 at Steve Yates Studio, Morton Grove, IL.
    Released 2010

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How this Southern Illlinois gangster lived and died in the noose in 1928. A short ballad from the early days of country music. Head to Benton, IL and see the gallows!

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from Caskets In The Cornfields, released December 12, 2010
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Bucky Halker Chicago, Illinois

Songwriter/performer/historian - Albums: Wisconsin 2-13-63, #1 & 2; Anywhere But Utah: Songs of Joe Hill; & The Ghost of Woody Guthrie. Appears on 1999 Grammy nominated album-Ella Jenkins and a Union of Friends Pulling Together. Has toured Europe since 1990. Wrote "For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest 1865-1895." Produced 5 volume CD set Folksongs of Illinois. ... more

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