Name: Hard Times Come Again No More, Vol. 1
Brand: Yazoo
SKU: 63644
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Hard Times Come Again No More, Vol. 1

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Album: Hard Times Come Again No More, Vol. 1
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Down on Penny's Farm - The Bently Boys
2)	How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? - Blind Alfred Reed
3)	Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin
4)	All I Got's Gone - Ernest V. Stoneman
5)	Bread Line Blues - Slim Smith
6)	Miss Meal Cramp Blues - Alec Johnson
7)	My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell
8)	Serves 'Em Fine - David McCarn
9)	It's Hard Time - J.D. Short
10)	All In, Down and Out Blues - Uncle Dave Macon
11)	Richmond Blues - Rutherford & Foster
12)	Hard Times - Elder Curry
13)	Georgia Hobo - The Cofer Brothers
14)	One Dime Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
15)	Dixie Boll Weevil - Fiddlin' John Carson
16)	See the Black Clouds A'breakin' over Yonder - Chubby Parker
17)	Down and Out Blues - Scrapper Blackwell
18)	Starving to Death on a Government Claim - Edward L. Crain
19)	We Sure Got Hard Times - Barbecue Bob
20)	Georgia Blues - Samantha Bumgarner
21)	Blue Harvest Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
22)	Weaver's Life - The Dixon Brothers
23)	Hard Times Come Again No More - Graham Brothers

Album: Hard Times Come Again No More, Vol. 1
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Down on Penny's Farm - The Bently Boys
2)	How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? - Blind Alfred Reed
3)	Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin
4)	All I Got's Gone - Ernest V. Stoneman
5)	Bread Line Blues - Slim Smith
6)	Miss Meal Cramp Blues - Alec Johnson
7)	My Name Is John Johanna - Kelly Harrell
8)	Serves 'Em Fine - David McCarn
9)	It's Hard Time - J.D. Short
10)	All In, Down and Out Blues - Uncle Dave Macon
11)	Richmond Blues - Rutherford & Foster
12)	Hard Times - Elder Curry
13)	Georgia Hobo - The Cofer Brothers
14)	One Dime Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
15)	Dixie Boll Weevil - Fiddlin' John Carson
16)	See the Black Clouds A'breakin' over Yonder - Chubby Parker
17)	Down and Out Blues - Scrapper Blackwell
18)	Starving to Death on a Government Claim - Edward L. Crain
19)	We Sure Got Hard Times - Barbecue Bob
20)	Georgia Blues - Samantha Bumgarner
21)	Blue Harvest Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
22)	Weaver's Life - The Dixon Brothers
23)	Hard Times Come Again No More - Graham Brothers

Performer Notes

Includes liner notes by Charles K. Wolfe and Don Kent.
Audio Remasterer: Richard Nevins.
Liner Note Authors: Charles K. Wolfe; Don Kent.
Another fine Yazoo collection of vintage American recordings of the '20s and '30s. The theme here of first-hand hardship experience makes for some amazing music, whether by white or black artists. The buoyant "Down on Penny's Farm" is beautifully offset by Blind Alfred Reed's baleful complaint "How Can a Poor Man Stand," complete with fragile fiddle work and loping guitar work. And that's just the first two tracks. It's amazing stuff: part oral history, part entertainment and all priceless, though both volumes together may make for more hard times than you want to experience. ~ Tim Sheridan