Pomona, CA

Ain't Times Hard: Political and Social Comment in the Blues

Release date October 14, 2008

Tracklist

1
Labor Blues
3:02
2
No Dough Blues
3:05
3
Down and Out Blues
2:57
4
Starvation Blues
3:18
5
Bad Time Blues
3:18
6
Miss Meal Cramp Blues
3:01
7
Shelby County Workhouse Blues
2:55
8
We Sure Got Hard Times
3:26
9
Levee Camp Man Blues
3:13
10
Hard Times on Me Blues
2:49
11
Tough Times Blues
2:59
12
The Northern Starvers Are Returning Home
3:36
13
Hard Times Done Drove Me To Drink
3:29
14
Starvation Blues
3:21
15
Hard Time Blues
2:38
16
Chain Gang Bound
3:37
17
Days of the Weeks Blues
3:24
18
Times Has Done Got So Hard
3:14
19
Hard Time Blues
3:17
20
The Depression Blues
3:05
21
Turpentine Blues
3:23
22
Hard Time Blues
2:51
23
DeKalb Chain Gang
3:05
24
Hard Time Blues
3:11
25
Red Cross Blues
3:14
26
Red Cross Man
3:12
27
Coal Mountain Blues
2:48
28
Red Cross Blues No. 2
3:03
29
It's Hard Time
3:12
30
R.F.C. Blues
3:07
31
Red Cross Blues
3:02
32
Sales Tax
3:03
33
Welfare Blues
3:26
34
C.W.A. Blues
2:46
35
Starvation Farm Blues
2:49
36
Charity Blues
3:09
37
Sylvester and His Mule Blues
3:04
38
Providence Help the Poor
3:06
39
Meat and Bread Blues
3:09
40
Hard Time Blues
3:19
41
Let's Have a Good Deal
2:45
42
Bonus Blues
3:24
43
W.P.A. Blues
3:17
44
When I Get My Bonus
2:34
45
When I Get My Money (I Mean That)
3:10
46
I'm Gonna Have My Fun
3:29
47
Jungle Man Blues
3:07
48
When the Soldiers Get Their Bonus
2:41
49
W.P.A. Blues
3:04
50
Don't Take Away My P.W.A.
2:56
51
Hobo Jungle Blues
3:00
52
New Red Cross Blues
3:16
53
Working for the P.W.A.
2:24
54
Government Money
3:12
55
Working on the Project
3:03
56
Hobo Jungle Blues
2:56
57
Hard Times Ain't Gone No Where
2:39
58
I Have Spent My Bonus
2:54
59
Relief Blues
2:48
60
Unemployment Stomp
2:38
61
304 Blues (Lost My Job on the Project)
3:06
62
Old Bachelor Blues
2:39
63
Welfare Blues
3:37
64
Back In My Cell Again
2:42
65
Welfare Blues
3:19
66
C.C.C. Blues
2:56
67
Welfare Blues
2:43
68
'29 Blues
2:49
69
Charity Blues
2:36
70
Four O Three Blues
3:02
71
Warehouse Man Blues
2:49
72
Nothing in Rambling
2:45
73
Hobo Blues
3:32
74
Stamp Blues
2:35
75
Hard Times Is on Me
3:07
76
Keep Straight Blues
2:18
77
Red Cross Store Blues
3:22
78
Working Man Blues
2:33
79
Post-War Future Blues
3:07
80
Shipyard Woman
2:58
81
Living in a Different World
3:13
82
Reconversion Blues
3:09
83
Sunny Road
3:07
84
Bonus Pay
2:53
85
Luxury Tax Blues
3:03
86
Unemployment Blues
2:48
87
Hard Times
2:37
88
Stockyard Blues
2:52
89
High Cost Low Pay Blues
2:42
90
Homeless Blues
3:12
91
Inflation Blues
2:52
92
Strike Blues
2:35
93
Strike Blues
2:39
94
Cotton Picking Blues
2:48
95
Ain't Times Hard
3:07
96
Tough Times
3:07
97
Depression Blues
2:52
98
The Panic's On
3:32
99
Things Are So Slow
3:07
100
Eisenhower Blues
2:54

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