Format: CD, Compilation, Remastered
Country: US
Released: 1998
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Blues, Hillbilly
[Tracklist]
01 Down On Penny's Farm: The Bentley Boys (02:47)
02 How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live: Blind Alfred Reed (03:15)
03 Hard Time Blues: Lane Hardin (03:18)
04All I Got's Gone: Ernest V. Stoneman (02:53)
05 Bread Line Blues: "Slim" Smith (03:22)
06 Miss Meal Cramp Blues: Alec Johnson (02:59)
07 My Name Is John Johanna: Kelly Harrell (03:13)
08 Serves 'Em Fine: Dave McCarn (03:00)
09 It's Hard Time: J.D. Short (03:11)
10 All In Down and Out: Uncle Dave Macon (02:32)
11 Richmond Blues: Rutherford & Foster (03:02)
12 Hard Times: Elder Curry (03:17)
13 Georgia Hobo: Cofer Brothers (03:19)
14 One Dime Blues: Blind Lemon Jefferson (02:46)
15 Dixie Boll Weavil: Fiddlin' John Carson (02:56)
16 See the Black Clouds A'Breakin' Over Yonder: Chubby Parker (03:04)
17 Down and Out Blues: Scrapper Blackwell (02:55)
18 Starving To Death On A Government Claim: Edward L. Crain (02:56)
19 We Sure Got Hard Times: Barbecue Bob (03:24)
20 Georgia Blues: Samantha Bumgarner (02:58)
21 Blue Harvest Blues: Mississippi John Hurt (02:53)
22 Weaver's Life: Dixon Brothers (03:24)
23 Hard Times Come Again No More: Graham Brothers (02:50)
[Credits]
Producer: Richard Nevins, Liner Notes: Don Kent, Designer: Joan Pelosi
[Notes]
Another fine Yazoo collection of vintage American recordings of the '20s and '30s. The theme here of first-hand hardship experience makes for some amazing music, whether by white or black artists. The buoyant "Down on Penny's Farm" is beautifully offset by Blind Alfred Reed's baleful complaint "How Can a Poor Man Stand," complete with fragile fiddle work and loping guitar work. And that's just the first two tracks. It's amazing stuff: part oral history, part entertainment and all priceless, though both volumes together may make for more hard times than you want to experience.-- AllMusic Review by Tim Sheridan
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