Name: Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 2
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SKU: 63637
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Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 2

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Album: Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 2
#	Song Title	Time
1)	John Henry Blues - Earl Johnson
2)	Moanin' the Blues - Allen Shaw
3)	Lonesome Road Blues - Ernest V. Stoneman/Kahle Brewer
4)	Washboard Cut Out - Bobby Leecan
5)	Bob McKinney - Henry Thomas
6)	Swanee River - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers
7)	James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown
8)	Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon
9)	Rooster's Crowing Blues, The - Cannon's Jug Stompers
10)	Tallapoosa Bound - A.A. Gray/John Dilleshaw/Seven Foot Dilly
11)	Billy Grimes, the Rover - The Shelor Family
12)	Brown Skin Girl Down the Lane - The Massey Family
13)	You Know You Done Me Wrong - Kansas Joe McCoy
14)	Old Joe - Grady Moore/Sid Harkreader/Gradey Moore
15)	Beware - Blind Alfred Reed
16)	Knocking Down Casey Jones - Lonely Eagles/Wilmer Watts
17)	Four Day Blues - Tommie Bradley
18)	Riley the Furniture Man - The Georgia Crackers
19)	Piney Woods Girl - Ernest V. Stoneman/Emmett Lundy
20)	State Street Rag - Louie Bluie
21)	Sugar in the Ground - The Tweedy Brothers
22)	Then I'll Move to Town - Southern Moonlight Entertainers
23)	Lord Keep Me With a Mind - Rev. D.C. Rice

Album: Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 2
#	Song Title	Time
1)	John Henry Blues - Earl Johnson
2)	Moanin' the Blues - Allen Shaw
3)	Lonesome Road Blues - Ernest V. Stoneman/Kahle Brewer
4)	Washboard Cut Out - Bobby Leecan
5)	Bob McKinney - Henry Thomas
6)	Swanee River - Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers
7)	James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown
8)	Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon
9)	Rooster's Crowing Blues, The - Cannon's Jug Stompers
10)	Tallapoosa Bound - A.A. Gray/John Dilleshaw/Seven Foot Dilly
11)	Billy Grimes, the Rover - The Shelor Family
12)	Brown Skin Girl Down the Lane - The Massey Family
13)	You Know You Done Me Wrong - Kansas Joe McCoy
14)	Old Joe - Grady Moore/Sid Harkreader/Gradey Moore
15)	Beware - Blind Alfred Reed
16)	Knocking Down Casey Jones - Lonely Eagles/Wilmer Watts
17)	Four Day Blues - Tommie Bradley
18)	Riley the Furniture Man - The Georgia Crackers
19)	Piney Woods Girl - Ernest V. Stoneman/Emmett Lundy
20)	State Street Rag - Louie Bluie
21)	Sugar in the Ground - The Tweedy Brothers
22)	Then I'll Move to Town - Southern Moonlight Entertainers
23)	Lord Keep Me With a Mind - Rev. D.C. Rice

Performer Notes

Like volume one, this presents 23 examples of early American rural music, mastered from rare 78s of the 1920s and 1930s. And like volume one, the names here will challenge the expertise of all but the most fanatical collector; only Uncle Dave Macon, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Henry Thomas, and maybe Blind Alfred Reed will be familiar. It's a valuable sampler of non-urban sounds as captured in the early days of the recording industry, when primitive technology and marketing naivete ensured that the music was virtually unadulterated. Fiddles, banjos, and plaintive, spirited vocals abound. Bobby Leecan's jugband romp "Washboard Cut Out" is the most exuberant track; Rev. D.C. Rice's gospel number "Lord Keep Me with a Mind" starts off in a more somber mood, but soon evolves into a jubilant New Orleans-styled arrangement. ~ Richie Unterberger