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

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Track list

CD 1

=> 1 Labor Blues (3:02)
=> 2 No Dough Blues (3:05)
=> 3 Down and Out Blues (2:57)
=> 4 Starvation Blues (3:18)
=> 5 Bad Time Blues (3:18)
=> 6 Miss Meal Cramp Blues (3:01)
=> 7 Shelby County Workhouse Blues (2:55)
=> 8 We Sure Got Hard Times (3:26)
=> 9 Levee Camp Man Blues (3:13)
=> 10 Hard Times on Me Blues (2:49)
=> 11 Tough Times Blues (2:59)
=> 12 Northern Starvers Are Returning Home (3:36)
=> 13 Hard Times Done Drove Me to Drink (3:29)
=> 14 Starvation Blues (3:21)
=> 15 Hard Time Blues (2:38)
=> 16 Chain Gang Bound (3:37)
=> 17 Days of the Weeks Blues (3:24)
=> 18 Times Has Done Got So Hard (3:14)
=> 19 Hard Time Blues (3:17)
=> 20 The Depression Blues (3:05)
=> 21 Turpentine Blues (3:23)
=> 22 Hard Time Blues (2:51)
=> 23 DeKalb Chain Gang (3:05)
=> 24 Hard Time Blues (3:11)
=> 25 Red Cross Blues (3:14)

CD 2

=> 1 Red Cross Man (3:12)
=> 2 Coal Mountain Blues (2:48)
=> 3 Red Cross Blues No. 2 (3:03)
=> 4 It's Hard Time (3:12)
=> 5 R.F.C. Blues (3:07)
=> 6 Red Cross Blues (3:02)
=> 7 Sales Tax (3:03)
=> 8 Welfare Blues (3:26)
=> 9 C.W.A. Blues (2:46)
=> 10 Starvation Farm Blues (2:49)
=> 11 Charity Blues (3:09)
=> 12 Sylvester and His Mule Blues (3:04)
=> 13 Providence Help the Poor People (3:06)
=> 14 Meat and Bread Blues (3:09)
=> 15 Hard Time Blues (3:19)
=> 16 Let's Have a Good Deal (2:45)
=> 17 Bonus Blues (3:24)
=> 18 W.P.A. Blues (3:17)
=> 19 When I Get My Bonus (2:34)
=> 20 When I Get My Money (3:10)
=> 21 I'm Gonna Have My Fun (3:29)
=> 22 Jungle Man Blues (3:07)
=> 23 When the Soldiers Get Their Bonus (2:41)
=> 24 W.P.A. Blues (3:04)
=> 25 Don't Take Away My P.W.A. (2:56)

CD 3

=> 1 Hobo Jungle Blues (3:00)
=> 2 New Red Cross Blues (3:16)
=> 3 Working for the P.W.A. (2:24)
=> 4 Government Money (3:12)
=> 5 Working on the Project (3:03)
=> 6 Hobo Jungle Blues (2:56)
=> 7 Hard Times Ain't Gone No Where (2:39)
=> 8 I Have Spent My Bonus (2:54)
=> 9 Relief Blues (2:48)
=> 10 Unemployment Stomp (2:38)
=> 11 304 Blues (3:06)
=> 12 Old Bachelor Blues (2:39)
=> 13 Welfare Blues (3:37)
=> 14 Back in My Cell Again (2:42)
=> 15 Welfare Blues (3:19)
=> 16 C.C.C. Blues (2:56)
=> 17 Welfare Blues (2:43)
=> 18 '29 Blues (2:49)
=> 19 Charity Blues (2:36)
=> 20 Four-O-Three Blues (3:02)
=> 21 Warehouse Man Blues (2:49)
=> 22 Nothing in Rambling (2:45)
=> 23 Hobo Blues (3:32)
=> 24 Stamp Blues (2:35)
=> 25 Hard Times Is on Me (3:07)

CD 4

=> 1 Keep Straight Blues (2:18)
=> 2 Red Cross Store Blues (3:22)
=> 3 Working Man Blues (2:33)
=> 4 Post-War Future Blues (3:07)
=> 5 Shipyard Woman (2:58)
=> 6 Living in a Different World (3:13)
=> 7 Reconversion Blues (3:09)
=> 8 Sunny Road (3:07)
=> 9 Bonus Pay (2:53)
=> 10 Luxury Tax Blues (3:03)
=> 11 Unemployment Blues (2:48)
=> 12 Hard Times (2:37)
=> 13 Stockyard Blues (2:52)
=> 14 High Cost Low Pay Blues (2:42)
=> 15 Homeless Blues (3:12)
=> 16 Inflation Blues (2:52)
=> 17 Strike Blues (2:35)
=> 18 Strike Blues (2:39)
=> 19 Cotton Picking Blues (2:48)
=> 20 Ain't Times Hard (3:07)
=> 21 Tough Times (3:07)
=> 22 Depression Blues (2:52)
=> 23 The Panic's On (3:32)
=> 24 Things Are So Slow (3:07)
=> 25 Eisenhower Blues (2:54)

Labels

=> JSP Records (UK jazz/blues reissues)

JSP77109

Release events

2008-10-14 United Kingdom

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