Hard Time Blues 1927–1960

Release by Various Artists

Track list

CD 1

=> 1 Uncle Sam Says (2:44)
=> 2 Defense Factory Blues (2:46)
=> 3 Million Lonesome Women (2:35)
=> 4 You Better Be Ready to Go (3:04)
=> 5 Uncle Sam Came and Get It (3:16)
=> 6 That Number of Mine (2:45)
=> 7 Get Back (Black Brown and White) (3:04)
=> 8 Cell no. 13 Blues (2:57)
=> 9 County Jail Blues (2:57)
=> 10 No Job Blues (3:12)
=> 11 There Is No Justice (2:43)
=> 12 Parchman Farm Blues (2:42)
=> 13 I’m Prison Bound (Doin’ Time Blues) (3:13)
=> 14 Penitentiary Blues (2:56)
=> 15 The Bourgeois Blues (3:25)
=> 16 Jim Crow (Blues) (2:25)
=> 17 Jim Crow Train (2:49)
=> 18 Back‐Water Blues (3:20)
=> 19 When the Levee Breaks (3:18)
=> 20 Mean Old Twister (3:00)
=> 21 Florida Hurricane (2:56)
=> 22 Income Tax Blues (2:39)
=> 23 Collector Man Blues (3:20)
=> 24 It’s Hard Time (3:11)

CD 2

=> 1 President Roosevelt (3:53)
=> 2 Don’t Take Away My P.W.A. (2:57)
=> 3 W.P.A. Blues (3:20)
=> 4 Working on the Project (3:07)
=> 5 Let’s Have a New Deal (2:46)
=> 6 Welfare Store Blues (2:52)
=> 7 Warehouse Man Blues (2:50)
=> 8 F.D.R. Blues (2:40)
=> 9 God Bless Our New President (2:45)
=> 10 President’s Blues (3:17)
=> 11 Eisenhower Blues (2:54)
=> 12 Korea Blues (2:46)
=> 13 Back to Korea Blues (3:13)
=> 14 Crazy World (3:01)
=> 15 The World Is in a Tangle (2:58)
=> 16 Hard Times Blues (2:59)
=> 17 Hard Times (3:11)
=> 18 No Shoes (2:40)
=> 19 Lonesome Cabin Blues (3:01)
=> 20 Poor Boy Blues (2:48)
=> 21 Pawnshop Blues (3:29)
=> 22 The Alabama Bus, Parts 1 & 2 (4:33)
=> 23 Democrat Man (3:30)
=> 24 The Big Race (5:48)

Labels

=> Frémeaux & Associés

FA 5480

Release events

2015 France

Relations

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