Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band • Murder of Maria Marten (1971) UK @[IlConte] this is (perhaps) the masterpiece of this beautiful album. Murder Ballad is inspired by the famous case of the red barn murder, from which Tom Waits also took his "Murder in the Red Barn," indeed. This is a story I've had in my head since I was a child; I had a little book about all these stories of deaths/murders/ghosts from Great Britain, such joy!