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For poor, rural Americans who lived in the first third of the century, the Great Depression just added insult to injury. The economic boom of the '20s skipped over many who worked the land. Volume one of this illustrative and entertaining series from Yazoo gathers songs recorded before and after the market crash of 1929. A few familiar names surface (Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Uncle Dave Macon), and a handful of songs may ring a bell (the Bentley Boys' "Down on Penny's Farm" provided the outline for Bob Dylan's "Hard Times in New York Town" and Ry Cooder revived Blind Afred Reed's "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live"). Most of this surface-scratched material, however, has been gathering dust for decades. It's good to have these tales of woe back in circulation, if only as a reminder that hard times can never be relegated to history books. --Steven Stolder 1 –The Bentley Boys Down On Penny's Farm
2 –Blind Alfred Reed How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
3 –Lane Hardin Hard Time Blues
4 –Ernest Stoneman All I Got's Gone
5 –Slim Smith Bread Line Blues
6 –Alec Johnson Miss Meal Cramp Blues
7 –Kelly Harrell My Name Is John Johanna
8 –Dave McCarn Serves 'Em Fine
9 –J.D. Short It's Hard Time
10 –Uncle Dave Macon All In Down And Out
11 –Rutherford & Foster Richmond Blues
12 –Elder Curry & His Congregation Hard Times
13 –Cofer Brothers Georgia Hobo
14 –Blind Lemon Jefferson One Dime Blues
15 –Fiddlin' John Carson Dixie Boll Weavil
16 –Chubby Parker See The Black Clouds A'Breakin' Over Yonder
17 –Scrapper Blackwell Down And Out Blues
18 –Edward L. Crain Starving To Death On A Government Claim
19 –Barbecue Bob We Sure Got Hard Times
20 –Samantha Bumgarner Georgia Blues
21 –Mississippi John Hurt Blue Harvest Blues
22 –Dixon Brothers Weaver's Life
23 –Graham Brothers Hard Times Come Again No More
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