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Full title is: Ain't Times Hard: Political and Social Comment In The Blues You can practically trace the social history of the '20s and '30s from these 100 songs, from the disastrous 1927 Mississippi floods to the New Deal and beyond-these blues singers may not have been properly educated but, boy, did they have some keen insight and wit to boot! Includes The Depression Blues Leroy Carr; Starvation Blues Big Bill Broonzy; Sales Tax Mississippi Sheiks; W.P.A. Blues Casey Bill Weldon; C.C.C. Blues Washboard Sam; High Cost Low Pay Blues Ivory Joe Hunter; Government Money Sleepy John Estes, and more from Lonnie Johnson, Yank Rachell, Memphis Minnie, Roosevelt Sykes, Barbecue Bob, Blind Blake and other blues legends. |
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Tracks and Sound Clips 
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Labor Blues - Dickson, Tom - 3:02
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No Dough Blues - Blind Blake [1] - 3:05
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Down & out Blues - Blackwell, Scrapper - 2:57
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Starvation Blues - Broonzy, Big Bill - 3:18
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Bad Time Blues - Barbecue Bob - 3:18
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Miss Meal Cramp Blues - Johnson, Alec - 3:00
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Shelby County Workhouse Blues - Newbern, Hambone Willie - 2:55
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We Sure Got Hard Times - Barbecue Bob - 3:25
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Levee Camp Man Blues - Campbell, Gene - 3:12
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Hard Times on Me Blues - Chatman, Andy - 2:48
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Tough Times Blues - Jordan, Charley - 2:58
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Northern Starvers Are Returning Home - Carter, Bo - 3:35
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Hard Times Done Drove Me to Drink - Carr, Leroy - 3:28
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Starvation Blues - Jordan, Charley - 3:20
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Hard Time Blues - Spand, Charley - 2:37
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Chain Gang Bound - Bumble Bee Slim - 3:36
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Days of the Weeks Blues - Jordan, Charley - 3:23
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Times Has Done Got So Hard - Hill, King Solomon - 3:14
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Hard Time Blues - Edwards, Carrie - 3:17
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Depression Blues - Carr, Leroy - 3:04
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Turpentine Blues - Tampa Red - 3:22
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Hard Time Blues - Blackwell, Scrapper - 2:51
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DeKalb Chain Gang - McMullen, Fred - 3:05
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Hard Time Blues - Moss, Buddy - 3:11
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Red Cross Blues - Roland, Walter - 3:14
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Red Cross Man - Bogan, Lucille - 3:12
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Coal Mountain Blues - Scott, Sonny - 2:48
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Red Cross Blues, No. 2 - Roland, Walter - 3:03
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It's Hard Time - Stone, Joe - 3:12
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R.F.C. Blues - Kelly, Jack [Blues] - 3:07
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Red Cross Blues - Davis, Walter - 3:02
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Sales Tax - Mississippi Sheiks - 3:03
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Welfare Blues - White, Joshua - 3:26
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C.W.A. Blues - Roland, Walter - 2:46
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Starvation Farm Blues - Campbell, Bob - 2:49
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Charity Blues - McCoy, Charlie [Guitar/Mandolin] - 3:09
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Sylvester & His Mule Blues - Memphis Minnie - 3:04
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Providence Help the Poor People - Williams, Big Joe - 3:06
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Meat & Bread Blues - Darby, Blind Teddy - 3:09
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Hard Time Blues - Hardin, Lane - 3:19
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Let's Have a Good Deal - Martin, Carl - 2:45
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Bonus Blues - Pullum, Joe - 3:24
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W.P.A. Blues - Weldon, Casey Bill - 3:17
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When I Get My Bonus - Wheatstraw, Peetie - 2:34
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When I Get My Money - Bumble Bee Slim - 3:10
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I'm Gonna Have My Fun - Martin, Carl - 3:29
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Jungle Man Blues - Wheatstraw, Peetie - 3:07
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When the Soldiers Get Their Bonus - Nelson, Red - 2:41
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W.P.A. Blues - Broonzy, Big Bill - 3:04
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Don't Take Away My P.W.A. - Gordon, Jimmie - 2:56
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Hobo Jungle Blues - Bumble Bee Slim - 3:00
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New Red Cross Blues - James, Frank 'Springback' - 3:16
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Working for the P.W.A. - King, Black Ivory - 2:24
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Government Money - Estes, Sleepy John - 3:12
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Working on the Project - Wheatstraw, Peetie - 3:03
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Hobo Jungle Blues - Estes, Sleepy John - 2:56
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Hard Times Ain't Gone No Where - Johnson, Lonnie - 2:39
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I Have Spent My Bonus - McCoy, Robert Lee [Guitar] - 2:54
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Relief Blues - Nelson, Red - 2:48
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Unemployment Stomp - Broonzy, Big Bill - 2:38
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304 Blues - Wheatstraw, Peetie - 3:06
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Old Bachelor Blues - Bonds, Son - 2:39
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Welfare Blues - Frazier, Calvin - 3:37
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Back in My Cell Again - Curry, George - 2:42
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Welfare Blues - Speckled Red - 3:19
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C.C.C. Blues - Washboard Sam - 2:56
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Welfare Blues - Pittman, Sampson - 2:43
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'29 Blues - Fields, Alfred - 2:49
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Charity Blues - Gilmore, Gene - 2:36
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Four-O-Three Blues - Johnson, Lonnie - 3:02
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Warehouse Man Blues - Dupree, Champion Jack - 2:49
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Nothing in Rambling - Memphis Minnie - 2:45
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Hobo Blues - Rachell, Yank - 3:32
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Stamp Blues - Hollins, Tony - 2:35
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Hard Times Is on Me - Shepard, Ollie - 3:07
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Keep Straight Blues - Guitar Slim [Eddie Jones] - 2:18
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Red Cross Store Blues - Terry & McGhee - 3:22
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Working Man Blues - Guitar Slim [Eddie Jones] - 2:33
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Post-War Future Blues - Cousin Joe - 3:07
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Shipyard Woman - Wynn, Jim - 2:58
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Living in a Different World - Sykes, Roosevelt - 3:13
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Reconversion Blues - Hunter, Ivory Joe - 3:09
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Sunny Road - Sykes, Roosevelt - 3:07
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Bonus Pay - Vinson, Eddie 'Cleanhead' - 2:53
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Luxury Tax Blues - Vinson, Eddie 'Cleanhead' - 3:03
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Unemployment Blues - Hogg, Smokey - 2:48
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Hard Times - Hogg, Smokey - 2:37
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Stockyard Blues - Jones, Floyd [Guitar] - 2:52
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High Cost Low Pay Blues - Hunter, Ivory Joe - 2:42
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Homeless Blues - Smith, Willie 'Long Time' [6] - 3:12
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Inflation Blues - McVea, Jack - 2:52
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Strike Blues - Williams, L.C. - 2:35
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Strike Blues - Hooker, John Lee - 2:39
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Cotton Picking Blues - Thornton, Big Mama - 2:48
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Ain't Times Hard - Jones, Floyd [Guitar] - 3:07
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Tough Times - Brim, John - 3:07
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Depression Blues - Brown, Clarence 'Gatormouth' - 2:52
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Panic's On - McCracklin, Jimmy - 3:32
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Things Are So Slow - Hutto, J.B. - 3:07
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Eisenhower Blues - Lenoir, J.B. - 2:54
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