January 20, 2018

Crime Songs and the Law @CriFiLover

Crime songs and the law? Yes, please. Crime Fiction Lover offers this list of top twenty songs related to crime fiction  or "about crime or the effects of crime..." and they include such classics as "Bang, Bang," "I Fought the Law," and "Folsom (not Fulsom) Prison Blues." But what? No "Jailhouse Rock"? And one commentator notes that Bob Dylan's "Hurricane" ought to be on the list.

And check out this article in The Strand on Bruce Springsteen's "crime songs." For fiction inspired by Mr. Springsteen's work, see the collection Trouble in the Heartland (Gutter Books, 2014).




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