Various Artists

Hard Time Blues 1927–1960

Release date 2015

Tracklist

1
Uncle Sam Says
2:44
2:44
2
Defense Factory Blues
2:46
2:46
3
Million Lonesome Women
2:35
2:35
4
You’d Better Be Ready to Go
3:04
3:04
5
Uncle Sam Came and Get It
3:16
3:16
6
That Number of Mine
2:45
2:45
7
Get Back (Black Brown and White)
3:04
3:04
8
Cell no. 13 Blues
2:57
2:57
9
County Jail Blues
2:57
2:57
10
No Job Blues
3:12
3:12
11
There Is No Justice
2:43
2:43
12
Parchman Farm Blues
2:42
2:42
13
I’m Prison Bound (Doin’ Time Blues)
3:13
3:13
14
Penitentiary Blues
2:56
2:56
15
The Bourgeois Blues
3:25
3:25
16
Jim Crow Blues
2:25
2:25
17
Jim Crow Train
2:49
2:49
18
Back-Water Blues
3:20
3:20
19
When the Levee Breaks
3:18
3:18
20
Mean Old Twister
3:00
3:00
21
Florida Hurricane
2:56
2:56
22
Income Tax Blues
2:39
2:39
23
Collector Man Blues
3:20
3:20
24
It's Hard Time
3:11
3:11
25
President Roosevelt
3:53
3:53
26
Don't Take Away My P.W.A.
2:57
2:57
27
W.P.A. Blues
3:20
3:20
28
Working on the Project
3:07
3:07
29
Let’s Have a New Deal
2:46
2:46
30
Welfare Store Blues
2:52
2:52
31
Warehouse Man Blues
2:50
2:50
32
F.D.R. Blues
2:40
2:40
33
God Bless Our New President
2:45
2:45
34
President’s Blues
3:17
3:17
35
Eisenhower Blues
2:54
2:54
36
Korea Blues
2:46
2:46
37
Back to Korea Blues
3:13
3:13
38
Crazy World
3:01
3:01
39
The World Is in a Tangle
2:58
2:58
40
Hard Times Blues
2:59
2:59
41
Hard Times
3:11
3:11
42
No Shoes
2:40
2:40
43
Lonesome Cabin Blues
3:01
3:01
44
Poor Boy Blues
2:48
2:48
45
Pawnshop Blues
3:29
3:29
46
The Alabama Bus, Parts 1 & 2
4:33
4:33
47
Democrat Man
3:30
3:30
48
The Big Race
5:48
5:48

Current tour

Various Artists is on tour now!

Various Artists will be next performing at Huntington Bank Pavilion on Saturday 06 June 2026, and is scheduled to play 4 concerts across 2 countries in 2026.

Upcoming Concerts