Times Ain’t Like They Used to Be, Vol. 5: Classic Recordings of the 1920s / Yazoo CD-2063

Description

Yazoo CD 2063.   A collection of classic recordings from the 1920s and 30s featuring many all-time great performances of early American rural music. This series is a fascinating overview of traditional American musical styles from the Civil War to the 1920s including fiddle tunes, rags, banjo songs, religious selections, old ballads, blues, etc.

1. SAM MCGEE, Railroad Blues

2. FLOYD COUNTY RAMBLERS, Step Stone

3. SKIP JAMES, Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues

4. WEEMS STRING BAND, Greenback Dollar

5. JIMMIE DAVIS, Doggone That Train

6.  ELI FRAMER, Framer’s Blues

7. ROY HARVEY & JESS JOHNSTON, No Room For A Tramp

8. GARLAND BROTHERS & GRINSTEAD, Just Over The River

9. BEN COVINGTON, Mule Skinner Moan

10. REAVES WHITE COUNTY RAMBLERS, Shortening Bread

11. J.P. NESTOR & NORMAN EDMONDS, Black-Eyed Susie

12. BUDDY BOY HAWKINS, A Rag Blues

13. ROY HARVEY & JESS JOHNSTON, Railroad Blues

14. GRAYSON COUNTY RAILSPLITTERS, Way Down In North Carolina

15. THE SWAMP ROOTERS, Citaco

16. UNKNOWN, Pistol Blues

17. MURPHY BROTHERS BAND, Boat Song March

18. FRANK BLEVINS & HIS TAR HEEL RATTLERS, I’ve Got No Honey Babe Now

19. WILMER WATTS & THE LONELY EAGLES, Bonnie Bess

20. BLIND JOE REYNOLDS, Cold Woman Blues

21. WYZEE, TUCKER & LECROY, Hamilton’s Special Breakdown

22. BULL MOUNTAIN MOONSHINERS, Johnny Goodwin

23. CHARLEY PATTON, Some Happy Day