Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Various - Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 7 of 8

Styles: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk
Label: Yazoo
Released: 2003
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 160,5 MB
Time: 70:07
Art: full

1. Dilly & His Dill Pickles - Bust Down Stomp - 3:18
2. Jimmie Tarlton - Dixie Mail - 3:22
3. King Solomon Hill - Times Has Done Got Hard - 3:14
4. East Texas Serenaders - Mineola Rag - 2:44
5. Sheffield Male Quartet - Christ Arose - 3:03
6. 'Gitfiddle Jim' - Rainy Night Blues - 3:14
7. Three Tobacco Tags - Good Gal Remember Me - 3:01
8. Red Headed Fiddlers - Texas Quickstep - 2:53
9. Ed Bell - Ham Bone Blues - 2:49
10. David Miller - Cannonball Rag - 2:48
11. Fiddlin John Carson & His Virginia Reelers - Little More Sugar medley - 3:07
12. Bo Weavil Jackson - Devil and my Brown Blues - 2:57
13. Stripling Brothers - Horseshoe Bend - 3:00
14. Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers - Primrose Hill - 2:56
15. Skip James - Hard Luck child - 3:06
16. Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee - Go On, Nora Lee - 3:09
17. Dennis McGee - Jeunes Gens Campagnard - 2:44
18. Jay Bird Coleman - I'm Gonna Cross The River Of Jordon Some Of These Days - 3:09
19. Uncle Pete & Louise - Only A Tramp - 3:01
20. Ben Jarrell & Frank Jenkins - Jack of Diamnds - 2:48
21. Son House - Dry Spell Blues, part 1 - 3:11
22. 'Ted' Sharp, Hinman & Sharp - Pike's Peak - 3:10
23. Old Southern Sacred Singers - I'll Go Where You Want Me To Go - 3:15

Notes: Each volume in Yazoo Records' Times Ain't Like They Used to Be series (this one is the seventh installment) collects 1920s and '30s commercial 78s, and taken together they project a vital and energetic rural, early 20th century 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. Volume 7 includes such rare gems as Jimmie Tarlton's impressive "Dixie Mail," Skip James' haunting "Hard Luck Child," an unhinged fiddle and banjo duet by Ben Jarrell and Francis Jenkins on "Jack of Diamonds" and the first part of Son House's classic two-part 78 rpm recording of "Dry Spell Blues." 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 most 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. 7 is a welcome addition to a hopefully never-ending series.

Times Ain't Like They Used to Be Vol. 7



• Alan Lomax - Texas Folk Songs
• The 2nd South Carolina String Band - Hard Road

Oznake: Country Blues, Prewar Blues, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues, Old-Timey, String Bands, Traditional Folk, Various