Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol.5
Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol.5
1 –Sam McGee Railroad Blues 2 –Floyd County Ramblers Step Stone 3 –Skip James Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues 4 –Weems String Band Greenback Dollar 5 –Jimmie Davis Doggone That Train 6 –Eli Framer Framer's Blues 7 –Roy Harvey And Jess Johnston No Room For A Tramp 8 –Garland Brothers & Grinstead Just Over The River 9 –Ben Covington Mule Skinner Moan 10 –Reaves White County Ramblers Shortening Bread 11 –J.P. Nestor & Norman Edmonds Black-Eyed Susie 12 –Buddy Boy Hawkins A Rag Blues 13 –Roy Harvey And Jess Johnston* Railroad Blues 14 –Grayson County Railsplitters Way Down In North Carolina 15 –The Swamp Rooters Citaco 16 –Unknown Artist Pistol Blues 17 –Murphy Brothers Harp Band Boat Song March 18 –Frank Blevins & His Tar Heel Rattlers I've Got No Honey Babe Now 19 –Wilmer Watts And The Lonely Eagles Bonnie Bess 20 –Blind Joe Reynolds Cold Woman Blues 21 –Wyzee*, Tucker & Lecroy Hamilton's Special Breakdown 22 –Bull Mountain Moonshiners Johnny Goodwin 23 –Charley Patton Some Happy Day
Each volume in Yazoo Records' Times Ain't Like They Used to Be series (this one is the fifth installment) collects 1920s and '30s commercial 78s, and taken together they project a vital and energetic early-20th century rural 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. Vol. 5 includes such gems as Sam McGee's bright "Railroad Blues," Skip James' classic and striking "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues," a breakneck version of "Black-Eyed Susie" by string band great J.P. Nestor, and a unusually hopeful blues treatment of "Some Happy Day" from Charley Patton. 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 several 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. 5 is yet another welcome addition to a hopefully never-ending series. ---Steve Leggett, AllMusic Review
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