My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Vol. 2: Badman Ballads & Hellraising Songs, Classic Recordings from the 1920s and ’30s / Yazoo CD-2040

Description

Yazoo CD 2040 / A collection of classic recordings of early American rural songs on the subject of badmen and hellraisers. Songs about outlaws, gamblers, drinkers and womanizers performed by many of the finest traditional musicians and singers ever recorded, many of whom have never been heard before on any re-issue. The whole breadth and scope of traditional American music is covered from old ballads to lyrical blues. Extensive biographical notes and photos are included in enclosed booklet.

1. DICK JUSTICE, Cocaine

2. CAROLINA BUDDIES, Otto Wood the Bandit

3. MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT, Frankie

4. UNCLE DAVE MACON, Railroadin’ and Gamblin’

5. DAVID MILLER, That Bad Man Stackolee

6. SLOPPY HENRY, Canned Heat Blues

7. EARL JOHNSON & HIS DIXIE ENTERTAINERS, Ain’t Nobody’s Business

8. PEG LEG HOWELL , Skin Game Blues

9. UNCLE DAVE MACON & SAM MCGEE, Late Last Night When Willie Come Home

10. BOB CAMPBELL, Dice’s Blues

11. HASKELL WOLFENBARGER, Sailing Out on the Ocean

12. HICKORY NUTS, Louisville Burglar

13. ROBERT WILKINS, Old Jim Canan’s

14. VERNON DALHART, Billy the Kid

15. GEORGIA CRACKERS, Georgia Black Bottom

16. EMRY ARTHUR, Ethan Lang

17. HALL BROTHERS, The Wrong Road

18. EVA DAVIS, Wild Bill Jones

19. LEE GREEN, Bad Man Napper

20. GEORGE RENEAU, Jesse James

21. BILL COX, My Rough and Rowdy Ways

22. BILL BROONZY, Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down

23. GARLAND JUBILEE SINGERS, This Train