Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol5 (2002)

Product Summary Label: Koch International Distributio UPC: 00016351206329 Release Date: 4/23/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60542516 Item#: MJRSP5 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Railroad Blues - Sam McGee ~ Various Artists 2. Step Stone - The Floyd County Ramblers ~ Various Artists 3. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues - Skip James ~ Various Artists 4. Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band ~ Various Artists 5. Doggone That Train - Jimmie Davis ~ Various Artists 6. Framer's Blues - Eli Framer ~ Various Artists 7. No Room For A Tramp - Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston ~ Various Artists 8. Just Over The River - Garland Brothers & Grinstead ~ Various Artists 9. Mule Skinner Moan - Ben Covington ~ Various Artists 10. Shortening Bread - Reaves White County Ramblers ~ Various Artists 11. Black-Eyed Susie - J.P. Nestor & Norman Edmonds ~ Various Artists 12. Rag Blues, A - Buddy Boy Hawkins ~ Various Artists 13. Railroad Blues - Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston ~ Various Artists 14. Way Down In North Carolina - Grayson County Railsplitters ~ Various Artists 15. Citaco - The Swamp Rooters ~ Various Artists 16. Pistol Blues - Unknown ~ Various Artists 17. Boat Song March - Murphy Brothers harp Band ~ Various Artists 18. I've Got No Honey Babe Now - Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers ~ Various Artists 19. Bonnie Bess - Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles ~ Various Artists 20. Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds ~ Various Artists 21. Hamilton's Special Breakdown - Wyzee, Tucker & Lecroy ~ Various Artists 22. Johnny Goodwin - Bull Mountain Moonshiners ~ Various Artists 23. Some Happy Day - Charley Patton ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Audio Remasterer: Richard Nevins. Liner Note Author: Richard Nevins. Each volume in Yazoo Records' Times Ain't Like They Used to Be series (this one is the fifth installment) collects 1920s and '30s commercial 78s, and taken together they project a vital and energetic early-20th century rural America of jug and string bands, country blues players, fiddlers, banjoists, sacred singers, and musical roustabouts of every conceivable rustic style imaginable. This process makes each volume remarkably similar even as the particular artists and songs included on each may be tremendously different. Vol. 5 includes such gems as Sam McGee's bright "Railroad Blues," Skip James' classic and striking "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues," a breakneck version of "Black-Eyed Susie" by string band great J.P. Nestor, and a unusually hopeful blues treatment of "Some Happy Day" from Charley Patton. Since everything is drawn from exceedingly rare 78s, many of which were played to death by their original owners, there is a fair amount of ambient needle noise on several of these tracks, but that only adds to the overall feel of history actually coming alive that is inherent to these kinds of compilations. Well selected, varied, and artfully sequenced, Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 5 is yet another welcome addition to a hopefully never-ending series. ~ Steve Leggett Producer: Richard Nevins   Technical Info Release Date : 04/09/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 2063 Label : Yazoo Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00016351206329    Related Videos This Time: Robert Cray Ballad Of John Henry Joe ...