My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Vol. 2 (1998)

About this title: My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Vol. 2 features 23 songs from the '30s about badmen and hellraisers, by artists ranging from legends like Uncle Dave Macon, Mississippi John Hurt, and Big Bill Broonzy to obscure music pioneers like George Reneau and groups like the Haywood County Ramblers. The mix of white, country, and black, blues artists is one of the better in this series, the music meshing together to form a kind of audio panorama of story-songs dealing with life on the far side of law and order -- "Otto Wood the Bandit" by the Carolina Buddies, (aka Odell Smith [fiddle] and Norman Woodlief ... read more

Tracks:

1. Cocaine [Traditional]
2. Otto Wood the Bandit [Traditional]
3. Frankie [Hurt/Traditional]
4. Railroadin' and Gamblin' [Traditional]
5. That Bad Man Stackolee
6. Canned Heat Blues
7. Ain't Nobody's Business [Grainger/Robbins]
8. Skin Game Blues [Howell]
9. Late Last Night When My Willie Came Home [Traditional]
10. Dice's Blues [Roland]
11. Sailing Out on the Ocean
12. Louisville Burglar
13. Old Jim Canan's [Wilkins]
14. Billy the Kid
15. Georgia Black Bottom
16. Ethan Lang
17. The Wrong Road
18. Wild Bill Jones
19. Bad Man Napper
20. Jesse James
21. My Rough and Rowdy Ways
22. Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down [Broonzy]
23. This Train

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.