Dominic is back with Sam and Martin, thinking about both the beauty and exploitation-of-beauty that this song contains, and considering how it compares with the traditions of murder ballads.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Dead and Lovely, Real Gone (remastered), Tom Waits (2004/2017)
Dead and Lovely, Real Gone (original), Tom Waits (2004)
Long Black Veil, single, Jenny Owen Youngs (2017)
Long Black Veil, single, Lefty Frizzell (1959)
Long Black Veil, Music From Big Pink, The Band (1968)
The Long Black Veil, The Long Black Veil, The Chieftains / Mick Jagger (1995)
The Long Black Veil, Orange Blossom Special, Johnny Cash (1965)
The Suspicious Death Of Carol Wayne, Facts Verse, via YouTube (2021)
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