In fact, I prefer much of this material to Ministry's post- Psalm 69 '90s stuff. Songs like “Train Song,” “Just Keep Running,” “Secondhand Smoke,” and the title track demonstrate a strong knack for pounding, pitch-black storytelling.Angel Seed XXIII was an abortion of an album, but Skrew was just insanely on point during the short window that encapsulates both Dusted and Shadow of Doubt. The band ─ including Samantha Aneson (vocals, guitar, banjo), Ariana Karp (cello), Nikola Balać (drums), and Andrew Shewaga (bass) ─ operate best under similar musical configurations. “Poor Jim was dead and gone / You could see it in his eyes / Then they broke his legs to fit him in / A small man’s coffin size,” reads an especially unsettling lyric. Satin Nickel ratchet up the story, also presented in playwright Frances Bradacke’s 1966 play, “The Ballad of Yankee Jim,” with equal parts blues, folk, and rock with a defined Shovels & Rope volatility. ![]() Reportedly, the “dreaded desperado” (as San Diego’s Union daily once described him) was “wounded during his capture and left unconscious during most of his trial,” author Iris Wilson Engstrand writes in 2005’s “San Diego: California’s Cornerstone.” Even more disturbing, the scaffolding on which Robinson was hung was so unstable that Robinson allegedly “strangled for fifteen minutes before actually dying.” ![]() In August 1852, Jim Robinson was charged with grand larceny (for stealing a boat) and sentenced to death by hanging. ![]() “The Ballad of Yankee Jim” twists colorfully with historical details in a way that’s even more chilling without compromising factual integrity.
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