Murder Ballads

MURDER BALLADS

• Publishing Company:

  NOOL AND NOOL BD

• Imprint:

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  ERIK KRIEK

• Number of Pages:

• Cover price:

  € 15.00

• Publication Date:

• Age:

  ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  FICTION

• Key words:

  MUSIC,

• Summary:

  The murder ballad holds a rock-solid position in US roots music and the Great American Songbook for decades. Telling the stories of sometimes true and often not-so-true-crimes and other horrific events, they are raw stories full of unrequited love, betrayal, life, and death. The song form stems from the Anglo-Saxon ballad tradition, where stories were orally passed on to a mostly illiterate population. Dutch cartoonist Erik Kriek was inspired by five old and new murder ballads — including songs by modern masters such as Nick Cave, Steve Earle, and Gillian Welch — and used them as a launching point for five special and ruthless graphic narratives that dig deep into the darkness of Americana, in which guns and religion maintain an uneasy balance.

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