Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 7: Early American Rural Music (2003)

About this title: Each volume in Yazoo Records' Times Ain't Like They Used to Be series (this one is the seventh installment) collects 1920s and '30s commercial 78s, and taken together they project a vital and energetic rural, early 20th century 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. Volume 7 includes such rare gems as Jimmie Tarlton's impressive ... read more

Tracks:

1. Bust Down Stomp
2. Dixie Mail
3. Times Has Done Got Hard
4. Mineola Rag
5. Christ Arose
6. Rainy Night Blues
7. Good Gal Remember Me
8. Texas Quickstep
9. Ham Bone Blues
10. Cannonball Rag
11. Little More Sugar in the Coffee/Peter Went Fishin'
12. Devil and My Brown Blues
13. Horseshoe Bend
14. Primrose Hill
15. Hard Luck Child
16. Go On, Nora Lee
17. Jeunes Gens Campagnard
18. I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordon Some of These Days
19. Only a Tramp
20. Jack of Diamonds
21. Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 1 [House]
22. Pike's Peak
23. I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go

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