专辑简介

The Henry brothers Christmas Single, The Ballad of the Lawson Family is a song based on a real event. The Lawson family massacre on Christmas Day, 1929 was news coast to coast when it took place, but the only ones who might know the case today are fans of hillbilly music.

Charlie Lawson was a "family annihilator" who killed his wife, six of his children, and then himself. The case has baffled and divided the folk of Stokes County, North Carolina for generations, and they've often expressed their feelings about the tragedy in music with ballads like "The Story of the Lawson Family," "Ballad of the Lawsons," "Murder of the Lawson Family," "The Murder of Charlie Lawson," "Charlie Lawson's Still," and many others.