Ain't Times Hard: Political And Social Comment In The Blues [Box Set] (CD)
Various Artists
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Track Listing
Disc 1 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Labor Blues
|
Tom Dickson | 03:02 |
2.
No Dough Blues
|
Blind Blake | 03:05 |
3.
Down & Out Blues
|
Scrapper Blackwell | 02:57 |
4.
Starvation Blues
|
Big Bill Broonzy | 03:18 |
5.
Bad Time Blues
|
Barbecue Bob | 03:18 |
6.
Miss Meal Cramp Blues
|
Alec Johnson & His Band | 03:00 |
7.
Shelby County Workhouse Blues
|
Hambone Willie Newberm | 02:55 |
8.
We Sure Got Hard Times
|
Barbecue Bob | 03:25 |
9.
Levee Camp Man Blues
|
Gene Campbell | 03:12 |
10.
Hard Times on Me Blues
|
Andy Chatman | 02:48 |
11.
Tough Times Blues
|
Charley Jordan | 02:58 |
12.
Northern Starvers Are Returning Home
|
Charlie McCoy , Bo Carter | 03:35 |
13.
Hard Times Done Drove Me to Drink
|
Leroy Carr | 03:28 |
14.
Starvation Blues
|
Charley Jordan | 03:20 |
15.
Hard Time Blues
|
Charlie Spand | 02:37 |
16.
Chain Gang Bound
|
Bumble Bee Slim | 03:36 |
17.
Days of the Weeks Blues
|
Charley Jordan | 03:23 |
18.
Times Has Done Got So Hard
|
King Solomon Hill | 03:14 |
19.
Hard Time Blues
|
Carrie Edwards | 03:17 |
20.
Depression Blues
|
Leroy Carr | 03:04 |
21.
Turpentine Blues
|
Tampa Red | 03:22 |
22.
Hard Time Blues
|
Scrapper Blackwell | 02:51 |
23.
DeKalb Chain Gang
|
Fred McMullen | 03:05 |
24.
Hard Time Blues
|
Buddy Moss | 03:11 |
25.
Red Cross Blues
|
Walter Roland | 03:14 |
Disc 2 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Red Cross Man
|
Lucille Bogan | 03:12 |
2.
Coal Mountain Blues
|
Sonny Scott | 02:48 |
3.
Red Cross Blues, No. 2
|
Walter Roland | 03:03 |
4.
It's Hard Time
|
Joe Stone | 03:12 |
5.
R.F.C. Blues
|
Jack Kelly & His South Memphis Jug Band | 03:07 |
6.
Red Cross Blues
|
Walter Davis | 03:02 |
7.
Sales Tax
|
The Mississippi Sheiks | 03:03 |
8.
Welfare Blues
|
Josh White | 03:26 |
9.
C.W.A. Blues
|
Walter Roland | 02:46 |
10.
Starvation Farm Blues
|
Bob Campbell | 02:49 |
11.
Charity Blues
|
Charlie McCoy | 03:09 |
12.
Sylvester and His Mule Blues
|
Memphis Minnie | 03:04 |
13.
Providence Help the Poor People
|
Big Joe Williams | 03:06 |
14.
Meat and Bread Blues
|
Blind Teddy Darby | 03:09 |
15.
Hard Time Blues
|
Lane Hardin | 03:19 |
16.
Let's Have a Good Deal
|
02:45 | |
17.
Bonus Blues
|
Joe Pullum | 03:24 |
18.
W.P.A. Blues
|
Casey Bill Weldon | 03:17 |
19.
When I Get My Bonus
|
Peetie Wheatstraw | 02:34 |
20.
When I Get My Money
|
Bumble Bee Slim | 03:10 |
21.
I'm Gonna Have My Fun
|
03:29 | |
22.
Jungle Man Blues
|
Peetie Wheatstraw | 03:07 |
23.
When the Soldiers Get Their Bonus
|
Red Nelson | 02:41 |
24.
W.P.A. Blues
|
Big Bill Broonzy | 03:04 |
25.
Don't Take Away My P.W.A.
|
Jimmie Gordon | 02:56 |
Disc 3 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Hobo Jungle Blues
|
Bumble Bee Slim | 03:00 |
2.
New Red Cross Blues
|
Springback James | 03:16 |
3.
Working for the P.W.A.
|
Black Ivory King | 02:24 |
4.
Government Money
|
Sleepy John Estes | 03:12 |
5.
Working on the Project
|
Peetie Wheatstraw | 03:03 |
6.
Hobo Jungle Blues
|
Sleepy John Estes | 02:56 |
7.
Hard Times Ain't Gone No Where
|
Lonnie Johnson | 02:39 |
8.
I Have Spent My Bonus
|
Robert Lee McCoy | 02:54 |
9.
Relief Blues
|
Red Nelson | 02:48 |
10.
Unemployment Stomp
|
Big Bill Broonzy | 02:38 |
11.
304 Blues
|
Peetie Wheatstraw | 03:06 |
12.
Old Bachelor Blues
|
Son Bonds | 02:39 |
13.
Welfare Blues
|
Calvin Frazier | 03:37 |
14.
Back in My Cell Again
|
George Curry | 02:42 |
15.
Welfare Blues
|
Speckled Red | 03:19 |
16.
C.C.C. Blues
|
Washboard Sam | 02:56 |
17.
Welfare Blues
|
Sampson Pittman | 02:43 |
18.
'29 Blues
|
Alfred Fields | 02:49 |
19.
Charity Blues
|
Gene Gilmore | 02:36 |
20.
Four-O-Three Blues
|
Lonnie Johnson | 03:02 |
21.
Warehouse Man Blues
|
Champion Jack Dupree | 02:49 |
22.
Nothing in Rambling
|
Memphis Minnie | 02:45 |
23.
Hobo Blues
|
Yank Rachell | 03:32 |
24.
Stamp Blues
|
Tony Hollins | 02:35 |
25.
Hard Times Is on Me
|
Ollie Shepard | 03:07 |
Disc 4 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Keep Straight Blues
|
, Louis "Jelly Belly" Hayes | 02:18 |
2.
Red Cross Store Blues
|
Sonny Terry , Brownie McGhee | 03:22 |
3.
Working Man Blues
|
, Louis "Jelly Belly" Hayes | 02:33 |
4.
Post-War Future Blues
|
Cousin Joe | 03:07 |
5.
Shipyard Woman
|
Jim Wynn | 02:58 |
6.
Living in a Different World
|
Roosevelt Sykes | 03:13 |
7.
Reconversion Blues
|
Ivory Joe Hunter | 03:09 |
8.
Sunny Road
|
Roosevelt Sykes | 03:07 |
9.
Bonus Pay
|
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson | 02:53 |
10.
Luxury Tax Blues
|
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson | 03:03 |
11.
Unemployment Blues
|
Smokey Hogg | 02:48 |
12.
Hard Times
|
Smokey Hogg | 02:37 |
13.
Stockyard Blues
|
Floyd Jones | 02:52 |
14.
High Cost Low Pay Blues
|
Ivory Joe Hunter | 02:42 |
15.
Homeless Blues
|
Willie "Long Time" Smith | 03:12 |
16.
Inflation Blues
|
Jack McVea | 02:52 |
17.
Strike Blues
|
02:35 | |
18.
Strike Blues
|
John Lee Hooker | 02:39 |
19.
Cotton Picking Blues
|
Big Mama Thornton | 02:48 |
20.
Ain't Times Hard
|
Floyd Jones | 03:07 |
21.
Tough Times
|
John Brim | 03:07 |
22.
Depression Blues
|
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown | 02:52 |
23.
Panic's On
|
Jimmy McCracklin | 03:32 |
24.
Things Are So Slow
|
J.B. Hutto | 03:07 |
25.
Eisenhower Blues
|
J.B. Lenoir | 02:54 |
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