Various - Hard Time Blues 1927-1960 (Political and Social Blues Against Racism at the Origin of the Civil Rights Movement) (2015)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Defense Factory Blues - Josh White
02. Uncle Sam Says - Josh White
03. Million Lonesome Women - Brownie Mcghee
04. You Better Be Ready to Go - Tampa Red
05. Uncle Sam Came and Get It - Wee Bea Booze
06. The Number of Mine - Big Bill Bronzy
07. Get Back (Black Brown and White) - Big Bill Bronzy
08. Cell No.13 Blues - Big Bill Bronzy
09. County Jail Blues - Big Maceo
10. No Job Blues - Ramblin' Thomas
11. There Is No Justice - Jimmy Jordan
12. Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
13. I'm Prison Bound (Doin' Time Blues) - Lowell Fulson
14. Penitentiary Blues - Lightin' Hopkins
15. The Bourgeois Blues - Huddie Ledbetter
16. Jim Crow (Blues) - Lead Belly
17. Jim Crow Train - Josh White
18. Back-Water Blues - Bessie Smith
19. When the Levee Breaks - Joe McCoy
20. Mean Old Twister - Kokomo Arnold
21. Florida Hurricane - Saint Louis Jimmy
22. Income Tax Blues - Ralph Willis
23. Collector Man Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
24. It's Hard Time - Joe Stone

CD2
01. President Roosevelt - Big Joe Williams
02. Don't Take Away My P.W.A. - Jimmie Gordon
03. W.P.A. Blues - Casey Bill Weldon
04. Working on the Project - Peetie Wheatstraw
05. Let's Have a New Deal - Carl Martin
06. Welfare Store Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
07. Warehouse Man Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
08. F.D.R. Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
09. God Bless Our New President - Champion Jack Dupree
10. President's Blues - Ray Herman
11. Eisenhower Blues - J.B. Lenoir
12. Korea Blues - J.B. Lenoir
13. Back to Korea Blues - Sunnyland Slim
14. Crazy World - Julia Lee
15. The World Is in a Tangle - Jimmy Rogers
16. Hard Times Blues - Ida Cox
17. Hard Times - Charles Brown
18. No Shoes - Eddie Kirkland
19. Lonesome Cabin Blues - Baby Roy Warren
20. Poor Boy Blues - Brownie Mcghee
21. Pawnshop Blues - Brownie Mcghee
22. The Alabama Bus, Pts..1 & 2 - Brother Will Hairston
23. Democrat Man - John Lee Hooker
24. The Big Race - Memphis Slim

States, and bore witness to the reactions of Afro-Americans to racism, poverty, hunger, unemployment, prison… Beginning with the Depression up to the Civil Rights struggle, Jean Buzelin and Jacques Demêtre have put together a series of themes touching on the New Deal, wars, natural catastrophes, elections and all the daily problems confronting the black community which has still not found its rightful place within American white society.

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