"The secret history of rock & roll"--Container. All selections previously released. Program notes by Colin Escott & David Evans (15 pages) inserted in container. Compact disc. Various performers. Recorded 1928-1940.
Contents:
Poor but ambitious (Wilmoth Houdini) A tale of the ticker (Frank Crumit) -- Brother, can you spare a dime? (Leo Reisman) -- Remember my forgotten man (George Hall) -- It must be swell (Alex Bartha) -- Raising the rent (Ramona & Roy Bargy) -- Sittin' on a rubbish can (Julia Gerity) -- Ten cents a dance (High Hatters) -- Poor man's heaven (Bud Billings & Carson Robison) -- The rich man and the poor man (Bob Miller) -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum (Harry "Mac" McClintock) -- All in down and out blues (Uncle Dave Macon) -- Taxes on the farmer feeds them all (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- How can a poor man stand such times and live? (Blind Alfred Reed) -- The farm relief song (Vernon Dalhart) -- Dusty old dust (So long it's been good to know you) (Woody Guthrie) -- 35 Depression (Daddy Stovepipe and Mississippi Sarah) -- California desert blues (Lane Hardin) -- It's hard time (Joe Stone) -- President Roosevelt is everybody's friend (Rev. J.M. Gates) -- CWA blues (Joe Pullum) -- Jimmy shut his store doors (Cedar Creek Sheik) -- Welfare store blues (Sonny Boy Williamson) -- Poor but ambitious (Wilmoth Houdini)
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