Folk Around – Episode November 4, 2026

Program: Folk Around

Length: 120 minutes

This week is all about songs about crime, murder, prison and tomfoolery! We track the history of these topics and play ton of great tracks!

Tracklist

  • Folsom Prison Blues
    Johny Cash • at Folsom Prison
  • I washed my hands in muddy water
    Stoneway Jackson • Trouble and Me
  • The men behind the wire
    The Dublin City Ramblers • Irish Republican Jail Songs
  • The murder of Maggie howie
    Mrs. Tom Sullivan • Folk Songs of Ontario
  • The last Saskatchewan Pirate
    Captain Tractor • East of eden
  • They're hanging me tonight
    Marty Robbins • Gunfighter ballads and trail songs
  • Thanks, Bastards!
    Mischief Brew • Songs from under the Sink
  • Wrecking need
    Mama's Broke • Count the wicked
  • Fuck it!
    Days N Daze • Rouge Taxidermy
  • Blood on the mind
    The Dead South • Chains & Stakes
  • A punk songs about how law enforcement ruins everything
    (person) (Noun) • Reconciliation
  • The murder of F.C Benwell
    Lamont Tilden • Folk songs of Ontario
  • Cocaine Blues
    Johnny Cash • At foldom Prison
  • The Devil is a hard man (to work for)
    Big Fancy & The Shiddy Cowboys • Crushing weight of bad mistakes
  • Outlaws & Angels
    The Heavy Horses • With Darkness in my eyes
  • Frankestien
    The Unfaithful Servants • *Single*
  • Don Valley Jail
    Stompin' Tom Connors • On Tragedy Trail
  • ACAB for cuties
    B. Fraser, Newgrounds Death Rugby • Weezer z (getting left behind by Fred Dust)
  • Cree: Prisoner Song
    William Burn Stick • Indian music of the Canadian Plains
  • Christmas in Prison
    John Prine • Sweet Revenge
  • Guilty Convict
    Rupert Edwards • If I had a pair of wings: Jamaican doo wop, Vol I-III
  • The Hobo's Grave
    Tom Brandson • Folk Songs of Ontario
  • Money Is talking
    Kaiti Grey • The Sun Setting on the world
  • The Dying Outlaw
    Alan Mils • Canada Story in Song
  • Take me in Chains
    The Bass Mountain Boys • American Gothic: Bluegrass songs of death & Sorrow
  • In the Jailhouse
    The Soggy Bottom Boys • o brother, where art thou?
  • 25 minutes to go
    Johnny Cash • at folsom Prison