Ain't Times Hard : Political & Social Comment in the Blues.

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Call Number: CD Blues Ain't
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Blues Ain't	2-week checkout	On Shelf

Compacts discs.
Compilation of blues music recorded between 1928 and 1954.
Disc 1. Labor blues (Tom Dickson) -- No dough blues (Blind Blake) -- Down and out blues (Scrapper Blackwell) -- Starvation blues (Big Bill Broonzy) -- Bad times blues (Barbecue Bob) -- Miss meal cramp blues (Alec Johnson) -- Shelby County workhouse blues (Hambone Willie Newbern) -- We sure got hard times (Barbecue Bob) -- Levee camp man blues (Gene Campbell) -- Hard times on me blues (Andy Chatman) -- Tough times blues (Charley Jordan) -- Northern starvers are returning home (Charlie McCoy, Bo Carter) -- Hard times done drove me to drink (Leroy Carr) -- Starvation blues (Charley Jordon) -- Hard time blues (Charley Spand) -- Chain gang bound (Bumble Bee Slim) -- Days of the weeks blues (Charley Jordan) -- Times has done got so hard (King Solomon Hill) -- Hard times blues (Carrie Edwards) -- The Depression blues (Leroy Carr) -- Turpentine blues (Tampa Red) -- Hard time blues (Scrapper Blackwell) -- DeKalb chain gang (Fred McMullen) -- Hard times blues (Buddy Moss) -- Red Cross blues (Walter Roland).
Disc 2. Red Cross man (Lucille Bogan) -- Coal mountain blues (Sonny Scott) -- Red Cross blues no. 2 (Walter Roland) -- It's hard time (Joe Stone) -- R.F.C. blues (Jack Kelly) -- Red Cross blues (Walter Davis) -- Sales tax (Mississippi Sheiks) -- Welfare blues (Joshua White) -- C.W.A. blues (Walter Roland) -- Starvation farm blues (Bob Campbell) -- Charity blues (Charlie McCoy) -- Sylvester and his mule blues (Memphis Minnie) -- Providence help the poor people (Big Joe Williams) -- Meat and bread blues (Blind Teddy Darby) -- Hard time blues (Lane Hardin) -- Let's have a good deal (Carl Martin) -- Bonus blues (Joe Pullum) -- W.P.A. blues (Casey Bill Weldon) -- When I get my bonus (Peetie Wheatstraw) -- When I get my money (Bumble Bee Slim) -- I'm gonna have my fun (Carl Martin) -- Jungle man blues (Peetie Wheatstraw) -- When the soldiers get their bonus (Red Nelson) -- W.P.A. blues (Big Bill Broonzy) -- Don't take away my P.W.A. (Jimmie Gordon).
Disc 3. Hobo jungle blues (Bumble Bee Slim) -- New Red Cross blues (Frank "Springback" James) -- Working for the P.W.A. (Black Ivory King) -- Government money (Sleepy John Estes) -- Working on the project (Peetie Wheatstraw) -- Hobo jungle blues (Sleepy John Estes) -- Hard times ain't gone no where (Lonnie Johnson) -- I have spent my bonus (Robert Lee McCoy) -- Relief blues (Red Nelson) -- Unemployment stomp (Big Bill Broonzy) -- 304 blues (Peetie Wheatstraw) -- Old bachelor blues (Son Bonds) -- Welfare blues (Calvin Frazier) -- Back in my cell again (George Curry) -- Welfare blues (Speckled Red) -- C.C.C. blues (Washboard Sam) -- Welfare blues (Sampson Pittman) -- '29 blues (Alfred Fields) -- Charity blues (Gene Gilmore) -- Four-o-three blues (Lonnie Johnson) -- Warehouse man blues (Champion Jack Dupree) -- Nothing in rambling (Memphis Minnie) -- Hobo blues (Yank Rachell) -- Stamp blues (Tony Hollins) -- Hard times is on me (Ollie Shepard.
Disc 4. Keep straight blues (Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly) -- Red Cross store blues (Terry & McGhee) -- Working man blues (Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly) -- Post-war future blues (Cousin Joe) -- Shipyard woman (Jim Wynn) -- Living in a different world (Roosevelt Sykes) -- Reconversion blues (Ivory Joe Hunter) -- Sunny road (Roosevelt Sykes) -- Bonus pay (Eddie Vinson) -- Luxury tax blues (Eddie Vinson) -- Unemployment blues (Smokey Hogg) -- Hard times (Smokey Hogg) -- Stockyard blues (Floyd Jones) -- High cost low pay blues (Ivory Joe Hunter) -- Homeless blues (Willie "Long Time" Smith) -- Inflation blues (Jack McVea) -- Strike blues (L.C. Williams) -- Strike blues (John Lee Hooker) -- Cotton picking blues (Big Mama Thornton) -- Ain't times hard (Floyd Jones) -- Tough times (John Brim) -- Depression blues (Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown) -- The panic's on (Jimmy McCracklin) -- Things are so slow (J.B. Hutto) -- Eisenhower blues (J.B. Lenoir).
Various artists.

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