Hard Times Come Again No More Vol. 2

Early American Rural Songs Of Hard Times And Hardships

Yazoo – 2037

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1998
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Blues, Hillbilly
[Tracklist]
01 Price of Cotton Blues: Allen Brothers (02:42)
02 Keno, The Rent Man: The Cofer Brothers (03:01)
03 Bad Time Blues: Barbecue Bob (03:15)
04 Wreck of the Tennessee Gravey Train: Sam McGee (03:11)
05 The Arkansas Sheik: Clayton McMichen & Riley Puckett (03:12)
06 Away from Home: Jim Hill & Peg Leg Howell (03:00)
07 I'm Satisfied: Earl Johnson (02:59)
08 Got the Farm Land Blues: The Carolina Tar Heels (03:19)
09 Times Is Tight Like That: Bo Carter & Walter Vinson (03:15)
10 Weave Room Blues: Fisher Hendley (02:32)
11 Boll Weevil: Alvin Conder & W.A. Lindsey (03:00)
12 Providence Help the Poor People: Joe Williams (03:09)
13 The Tramp: McGee Brothers (02:49)
14 Cotton Mill Colic: David McCarn (02:34)
15 Starvation Blues: Charley Jordan (03:17)
16 Broke Down Section Hand: Ernest V. Stoneman (03:05)
17 Little Old Sod Shanty: Jules Allen (02:58)
18 Down South Blues: Ernest V. Stoneman (03:10)
19 No One's Hard up But Me: Red Brush Rowdies (02:44)
20 Cotton Mill Blues: Lee Brothers Trio (03:02)
21 No Dough Blues: Blind Blake (03:05)
22 The Northern Starvers Are Returning Home: Bob Carter & Charlie McCoy (03:27)
23 Them Good Old Times Are Coming Back Again: Jim Baird (03:30)
[Credits]
Producer: Richard Nevins, Liner Notes: Don Kent, Designer: Joan Pelosi
[Notes]
With the unlikely sound of a kazoo, the Allen Brothers kick off this fine volume of hard-time blues collected from the '20s and '30s. More tongue-in-cheek than its predecessor, this volume is not all moaning and weeping. Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGhee create a joyful sound with dueling banjos on "Wreck of the Tennessee Gravey Train" and Earl Johnson & his Dixie Entertainers are hilarious on "I'm Satisfied." The disc proves some things never change: you have to laugh sometimes to keep from crying.-- AllMusic Review by Tim Sheridan

Protobilly: The Minstrel & Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892-2017

JSP Records JSP5202

Format: 3xCD, Compilation, Limited Edition, Stereo, Mono
Country: UK
Released: October 25, 2019
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Old Time, Country, Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
Disc One
101 Casey Jones: Billy Murray
102 Casey Jones: Fiddlin' John Carson
103 Southern Casey Jones: Jesse James
104 Steamboat Bill: Arthur Collins
105 Casey and Bill: Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band
106 Steamboat Bill Boogie: Delmore Bros.
107 Red Wing: Frank C Stanley & Henry Burr
108 Red Wing: Doc Williams & the Border Riders
109 Just Break the News to Mother: George J Gaskin
110 Take the News to Mother: Louvin Bros.
111 In the Shadow of the Pines: Royal Fish & Vernon Archibald
112 In the Shadow of the Pine: Kelly Harrell
113 Are You From Dixie?: Billy Murray & Irving Kaufman
114 Are You From Dixie: Grandpa Jones
115 Home, Sweet Home: Eleanora de Cisneros
116 Home, Sweet Home: Don Reno
117 The Party That Wrote Home Sweet Home, Never Was a Married Man: Ed Morton
118 The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home, Never Was a Married Man: Mack Woolbridge & Charlie Parker
119 I'm Alabama Bound: Prince's Orchestra
120 Alabama Bound: Papa Charlie Jackson
121 Unter dem Doppleadler: Olbrig's Zither Trio
122 Under the Double Eagle: Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers
123 Blue Bell: Harry Macdonough
124 Blue Bell: Merle Travis
125 Virginia Bluebell: Eddie Adcock
126 The Foolish Frog: May Irwin
127 The Foolish Frog: Frank Corso
Disc Two
201 Haul The Woodpile Down: Charles A Asbury
202 Hold That Wood-Pile Down: Uncle Dave Macon
203 Darling Nellie Gray: The American Quartet
204 Darling Nellie Gray: Roland Cauly & Lake Howard
205 Darling Nellie Gray: Louis Armstrong & the Mills Brothers
206 I Got Mine: Arthur Collins & Joseph Natus
207 I Got Mine: Frank Stokes
208 Go Easy Mabel: Edward Meeker
209 Go Easy Mabel: Delmore Bros
210 Smoke Goes Up the Chimney: Dan W Quinn
211 Smoke Goes Up the Chimney: Fiddlin' John Carson
212 When the Bees Are In the Hive: Peerless Quartet
213 When the Bees Are In the Hive: Bill Monroe
214 Don't You Leave Me Here: Charles Johnson's Original Paradise Ten
215 I'm Alabamy Bound: Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
216 Don't Go Down In the Mine, Dad: Stanley Kirkby
217 Dream Of a Miner's Child: Keith Whitley
218 I Loved You Better Than You: Byron G Harlan & Frank C Stanley
219 I Loved You Better Than You: The Carter Family
220 I Loved You Better Than You: Johnnie and Jack
221 By The Watermelon Vine: Edison Male Quartet
222 Lindy: Proximity String Quartet
223 Who Broke The Lock: Cousins and DeMoss
224 Who Stole De Lock: The Georgia Browns
225 Who Stole The Lock: Jack Bland & his Rhythmmakers
226 Lovesick Blues: Emmett Miller
227 Lovesick Blues: Hank Williams
228 I'm the Father of a Little Black Coon: Charles A Asbury
Disc Three
301 May Irwin's Bully Song: May Irwin
302 Bully Of the Town: Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers
303 Fille de la Fille: Vin Bruce
304 Turkey in the Straw: Billy Golden
305 Turkey Buzzard Blues: Peg Leg Howell & Eddie Anthony
306 Old Dan Tucker: Harry C Browne
307 Old Dan Tucker: Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers
308 The Arkansas Traveler: Len Spencer
309 The Arkansaw Traveler: Jilson Setters (J.W Day)
310 Arkansas Traveler: Clayton McMichen & his Georgia Wildcats
311 The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee: S.H Dudley & Harry Macdonough
312 Sunny Tennessee: Floyd County Ramblers
313 Nigger Blues: George O'Connor
314 The Blues Ain't Nothing But: Georgia White
315 I'se Gwine Back to Dixie: Brilliant Quartet
316 I'se Gwine Back to Dixie: Uncle Dave Macon
317 Baby Mine: Elizabeth Spencer
318 Going Around This World: Leslie Keith
319 All Night Long: Anna Chandler
320 All Night Long: Roy Acuff & his Crazy Tennesseeans
321 Laughing Rag: Sam Moore & Horace Davis
322 Mexican Rag: Darby & Tarlton
323 I Don't Care If I Never Wake Up: Silas Leachman
324 My Money Never Gives Out: Arthur Collins
325 My Money Never Runs Out: Banjo Joe (Gus Cannon)
326 My Money Never Gives Out: Dom Flemons & Guy Davis
[Notes]
This 3 CD reissue anthology is the first to track 20th century American vernacular music of old time country, bluegrass, jazz and blues by tracing their beginnings in 19th century blackface minstrelsy and Tin Pan Alley. The set includes a 76 page booklet with song annotations, sheet music covers, photographs and period graphics, biographies and discographies Driven by songwriting and publishing songs are refashioned again and again showcasing stylistic as well as lyrical changes over the past 100 years The foundation of the American popular songbook traces its beginnings to the Vaudeville, Circus, Minstrel, Music Hall and Theatre stages of the mid-late 1800s The songs spread throughout the country and world creating a new musical tapestry that included both black and white performers of all backgrounds By aligning performances from the earliest cylinder recordings with later 78 rpm, LP and CD versions, PROTOBILLY brings to life 81 historic recordings more than half never before reissued all brilliantly remastered to vividly demonstrate the checkered and enormously powerful elasticity of American music.

The Skillet Lickers: Old Time Fiddle Tunes And Songs From North Georgia

County Records CD-3509

Format: CD, Album, Remastered
Country: US
Released: 1996
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Old-time
[Tracklist]
01 Rocky Pallet (2:52) Oct 29, 1929
02 Rock That Cradle Lucy (2:56) Oct 29, 1929
03 Soldier's Joy (2:55) Oct 29, 1929
04 Sal's Gone To The Cider Mill (3:00) Apr 14, 1930
05 Ride Old Buck To Water (3:08) Dec 4, 1930
06 Molly Put The Kettle On (3:10) Oct 24, 1931
07 Hell Broke Loose In Georgia (3:01) Oct 29, 1929
08 Fly Around My Pretty Litte Miss (3:16) Oct 23, 1928
09 Liberty (3:19) Oct 22, 1928
10 Devilish Mary (3:21) Oct 22, 1928
11 Cackling Hen And Rooster Too (3:13) Dec 4, 1930
12 Miss McLeod's Reel (2:55) Oct 24, 1931
13 Pretty Little Widow (3:12) Oct 23, 1928
14 Dixie (3:12) Mar 29, 1927
15 Broken Down Gambler (3:11) Dec 5, 1930
16 Leather Breeches (3:04) Apr 14, 1930
[Credits]
Bert Layne, Clayton McMichen, Lowe Stokes (fiddles) Gid Tanner (fiddle/banjo/vocals) Riley Puckett (guitar/vocals) Fate Norris (banjo)
Liner Notes: Norm Cohen & Richard Nevins, Art Direction, Design: Rebecca Pittard, Production Coordinator: Gary B. Reid, Digital Mastering: Robert Vosgien, Remastering: Rich Nevin

[Notes]
The vinyl LP was released in 1973 as COUNTY-526. The single-disc compilation Skillet Lickers contains 16 tracks that the hillbilly musical comedy group recorded between 1926 and 1931, including "Ride Old Buck to the Water," "Dixie," and "Leather Breeches." The Skillet Lickers were one of the most popular groups of their time, and although their music and humor has dated considerably in the decades since, the musical talents of fiddler Gid Tanner remain impressive, and this compilation is the best way to hear him and his group.

The Skillet Lickers: Old Time Tunes recorded 1927-1931

County Records County‎– 506

Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: United States
Released:
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Old Time, & Country
[Tracklist]
A1 Molly Put The Kettle On
A2 Sal's Gone To The Cider Mill
A3 Big Ball In Town
A4 Leather Breeches
A5 A Corn Licker Still In Georgia
A6 Devilish Mary
B1 Soldier's Joy
B2 Four Cent Cotton
B3 Cacklin' Hen & Rooster Too
B4 In The Woodpile
B5 Rock That Cradle Lucy
B6 Cotton Eyed Joe
[Credits]
Bert Layne, Clayton McMichen, Gid Tanner, Lowe Stokes (fiddles) Riley Puckett (guitar/vocals) Fate Norris (banjo)
[Notes]
Recorded 1927-1931