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Various Artists
Hard Times Come Again No More 2
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Pop, Classical

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. Price Of Cotton Blues - Allen Brothers
2. Keno The Rent Man - Cofer Brothers
3. Bad Time Blues - Barbecue Bob
4. Wreck Of The Tennessee Gravey Train - Uncle Dave Macon/Sam McGee
5. The Arkansas Sheik - Clayton McMichen/Riley Puckett
6. Away From Home - Peg Leg Howell/Jim Hill
7. I'm Satisfied - Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers
8. Got The Farm Land Blues - Carolina Tar Heels
9. Times Is Tight Like That - Bo Carter/Walter Vinson
10. Weave Room Blues - Fisher Hendley
11. Boll Weavil - W.A. Lindsey/Alvin Conder
12. Providence Help The Poor People - Joe Williams
13. The Tramp - McGee Brothers
14. Cotton Mill Colic - Dave McCarn
15. Starvation Blues - Charley Jordon
16. Broke Down Section Hand - Ernest Stoneman
17. Little Old Sod Blues - Jules Allen
18. Down South Blues - Sleepy John Estes
19. No One's Hard Up But Me - Red Brush Rowdies
20. Cotton Mill Blues - Lee Brothers
21. No Dough Blues - Blind Blake
22. The Northern Starvers Are Returning Home - Charlie McCoy/Bob Carter
23. Them Good Old Times Are Coming Back Again - Jim Baird

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Hard Times Come Again No More 2
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Yazoo
Original Release Date: 8/18/1998
Release Date: 8/18/1998
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Pop, Classical
Styles: Classic Country, Traditional Blues, Traditional Folk, Instruments, Strings
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 016351203724, 803680475751

Synopsis

Amazon.com

The song titles tell the tale: "Bad Time Blues," "Starvation Blues," "No Dough Blues." The second volume of Yazoo's two-part '20s and '30s songs of insolvency series is every bit as involving and interesting as its 23-song affiliate. Artists renowned (Sleepy John Estes, Blind Blake) and remote sound off on the hardships many rural Americans endured up to and after the advent of the Great Depression. The subject matter is uniformly grim, but humor lightens the mood of many these tunes. "The poor are getting poorer / The rich are getting rich / If I don't starve I'm a son of a gun," Dave McCarn teases on "Cotton Mill Colic." Lengthy liner essays make the Hard Times discs all the more appealing for those with a partiality for both old-time music and Depression- era history. --Steven Stolder

CD Reviews

A Must Have

09/03/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD along with volume 1 is a must have for fans of old time music. This music kind of gets your bones down in the dirt and puts shivers in your soul."

Contains many rare gems

nadav haber | jerusalem Israel | 10/15/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The combination of black blues musicians and white songsters on the same CD is very interesting, but it does not make for coherent listening. As a blues fan I was surprised to find how there was a lot of mutual influence among white and black musicians in the South.
Most blues musicians in this CD are also great songsters - such as Blind Blake and Peg Leg Howell, but the blues of Barbecue Bob, Charly Jordan and Big Joe Williams have very little in common with any of the white songsters. I Would include songs by Furry Lewis, Blind Boy Fuller or Blind Willie Mctell instead - to add some coherence.
Nevertheless, there is plenty of good music on this compilation - from both songsters and bluesmen. I would recommend this CD to anyone interested in the Southern Songster tradition."