| Description |
2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Songs and instrumental music. |
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Compact discs. |
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Originally released as 78-rpm discs. |
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Identical biographical and program notes by Charles K. Wolfe and Don Kent (11 p. : ports.) inserted in each container. |
| Contents |
V. 1. Down on Penny's farm (The Bentley Boys) -- How can a poor man stand such times and live (Blind Alfred Reed) -- Hard times blues (Lane Hardin) -- All I got's gone (Ernest Stoneman) -- Bread line blues (Slim Smith) -- Miss meal cramp blues (Alec Johnson) -- My name is John Johanna (Kelly Harrell) -- Serves 'em fine (Dave McCarn) -- It's hard time (J.D. Short) -- All in down and out (Uncle Dave Macon) -- Richmond blues (Rutherford & Foster) -- Hard times (Elder Curry |
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& his congregation) -- Georgia hobo (Cofer Brothers) -- One dime blues (Blind Lemon Jefferson) -- Dixie boll weavil (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- See the black clouds a'breakin' over yonder (Chubby Parker) -- Down and out blues (Scrapper Blackwell) -- Starving to death on a government claim (Edward L. Crain) -- We sure got hard times (Barbecue Bob) -- Georgia blues (Samantha Bumgarner) -- Blue harvest blues (Mississippi John Hurt) -- Weaver's life (Dixon Brothers) -- Hard |
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times come again no more (Graham Brothers). -- |
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(cont.): V. 2. Price of cotton blues (Allen Brothers) -- Keno the rent man (Cofer Brothers) -- Bad time blues (Barbecue Bob) -- Wreck of the Tennessee gravey train (Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee) -- The Arkansas sheik (Clayton McMichen & Riley Puckett) -- Away from home (Peg Leg Howell & Jim Hill) -- I'm satisfied (Earl Johnson & his Dixie Entertainers) -- Got the farm land blues (Carolina Tar Heels) -- Times is tight like that (Bo Carter & Walter Vinson) -- Weave room |
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blues (Fisher Hendley) -- Boll weavil (W.A. Lindsey & Alvin Conder) -- Providence help the poor people (Joe Williams)-- The tramp (McGee Brothers) -- Cotton mill colic (Dave McCarn) -- Starvation blues (Charley Jordon) -- Broke down section hand (Ernest Stoneman) -- Little old sod shanty (Jules Allen) -- Down South blues (Sleepy John Estes) -- No one's hard up but me (Red Brush Rowdies) -- Cotton mill blues (Lee Brothers) -- No dough blues (Blind Blake) -- The northern |
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starvers are returning home (Charlie McCoy and BoB Carter) -- Them good old times are coming back again (Jim Baird) |
| Performer |
Various performers and groups. |
| Event |
"Classic recordings from the 1920's and 30's"--Insert. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Songs and music.
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Country music.
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Blues (Music)
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| Added Title |
Early American rural songs of hard times and hardships |
| Standard No. |
016351203625 |
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019351203724 |
| Music No. |
2036--2037 Yazoo |
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