Hard Times Come Again No More, Vol. 2: Rural Songs of Hard Times and Hardships, Classic Recordings from the 1920s and ’30s / Yazoo CD-2037

Description

Yazoo CD 2037 / A collection of classic recordings of early American rural songs about hard times – crop failures, joblessness, the Depression, and just generally problematic circumstances. These performances are by many of the finest traditional musicians and singers ever recorded, some well-known and many others never heard before on any re-issue. The whole breadth and scope of traditional American music is covered from old ballads to lyrical blues. Extensive biographical notes and photos are included in booklet.

1. ALLEN BROTHERS, Price Of Cotton Blues

2. COFER BROTHERS, Keno The Rent Man

3. BARBECUE BOB, Bad Time Blues

4. UNCLE DAVE MACON & SAM MCGEE, Wreck Of The Tennessee Gravey Train

5. CLAYTON MCMICHEN & RILEY PUCKETT, The Arkansas Sheik

6. PEG LEG HOWELL & JIM HILL, Away From Home

7. EARLY JOHNSON & HIS DIXIE ENTERTAINERS, I’m Satisfied

8. CAROLINA TAR HEELS, Got The Farm Land Blues

9. BO CARTER & WALTER VINSON, Times Is Tight Like That

10. FISHER HENDLEY, Weave Room Blues

11. W.A. LINDSEY & ALVIN CONDER, Boll Weavil

12. JOE WILLIAMS, Providence Help The Poor People

13. MCGEE BROTHERS, The Tramp

14. DAVE MCCARN, Cotton Mill Colic

15. CHARLEY JORDAN, Starvation Blues

16. ERNEST STONEMAN, Broke Down Section Hand

17. JULES ALLEN, Little Old Sod Shanty

18. SLEEPY JOHN ESTES, Down South Blues

19. RED BRUSH ROWDIES, No One’s Hard Up But Me

20. LEE BROTHERS, Cotton Mill Blues

21. BLIND BLAKE, No Dough Blues

22. CHARLIE MCCOY & BOB CARTER, The Northern Starvers Are Returning Home

23. JIM BAIRD, Them Good Old Times Are Coming Back Again