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

Traditional Country Classics 1927-1929

Historical Records HLP-8003

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: 1968
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Old Time, & Country
[Tracklist]
A1 Leather Breeches: Earl Johnson (fiddle/vocals) Red Henderson (banjo)
A2 What You Gonna' Do With The Baby: Grayson & Whitter, G.B. Grayson (fiddle/vocals) Henry Whitter (guitar/vocals)
A3 Gray Eagle: Taylors' Kentucky Boys, Marion Underwood (banjo) Jim Booker (fiddle)
A4 Kenney Wagner's Surrender: Ernest V. Stoneman (guitar/harmonica/vocals) Kahle Brewer (fiddle)
A5 Honeysuckle Time: Paul Miles (banjo/vocals) Guy Brooks (fiddle) A.P. Thompson (guitar/vocals) Bob Cranford (harmonica)
A6 Sugar Hill: George Crockett (banjo/vocals)
A7 Georgia Wobble Blues: Carrol County Ramblers, Unknown Artists (banjo/fiddle/vocals)
B1 Red Hot B Take Me Back To The Sweet Sunny South: DeCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters, DeCosta Woltz (banjo) Frank Jenkins, Ben Jarrell (vocals)
B4 ust Keep Waiting Till' the Good Time Comes: North Carolina Ramblers, Charlie Poole (banjo/vocals) Lonnie Austin (fiddle) Roy Harvey (guitar)
B5 She's A Flower From the Fields of Alabama: Burnett & Rutherford, Dick Burnett (banjo/vocals) Leonard Rutherford (fiddle/vocals)
B6 Oh Molly Lye Soap Breakdown: Dilly and his Dill Pickles, Pink Lindsey (bass) Bill Kiker (fiddle) Shorty Lindsey (mandolin banjo) Seven Foot Dilly (vocals)
[Credits]
Compiled by: Joe Bussard, Jr., Cover: Fred Romary, Liner Notes: Richard Nevins, Produce: Arnold S. Caplin