
The Struggle Is Real
“what’s gonna happen to this old world if the people don’t change their ways?” a question pondered in this collection of blues, country and folk music from the early to mid 20th century. unfortunately this question seems even more relevant today. lookin’ like we need more outlaws to take from the rich and give to the poor.
photo : Miss Dalia Ideapact
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Tracklist
- Don’t You See How This World Made A Change – Blind Willie McTell – Vocalion / Third Man Records (1933/2013)
- Down On Penny’s Farm – The Bently Boys – Columbia / Doxy (1929/2009)
- What’s Gonna Happen (To This Old World) – Hoyt Scoggins And Choir – Starday Records / The Omni Recording Corporation / The Iron Mountain Analogue Research Facility (1957/2017)
- Money Cannot Buy Your Soul – The Anglin Brothers – Mississippi Records (1938/2006)
- All I Want – The Almanac Singers and Pete Seeger – Folkways Records / New World Records (1955/1977)
- As Long As The Grass Shall Grow – Johnny Cash – Columbia (1964)
- Farmer Is The Man Who Feeds Them All – Fiddlin’ John Carson – Okeh / Tompkins Square (1924/2012)
- How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? – Blind Alfred Reed – Victor / Revenant / Harry Smith Archives (1929/2000)
- The World Is Going Wrong – Mississippi Sheiks – Columbia / Third Man Records (1931/2013)
- Ballad Of Hollis Brown – Bob Dylan – Columbia (1964)
- Fixin’ To Die – Bukka White – Vocalion / Columbia (1940/1969)
- I’ve Been Down – Mr. Montgomery – Mississippi (2015)
- Pretty Boy Floyd – Woody Guthrie – Asch Records / Folkways Records / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1946/1976/2018)
- Wreck Of The Tennessee Gravy Train – Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee – Okeh / Revenant / Harry Smith Archives (1930/2000)
- The Bourgeois Blues – Leadbelly – Muiscraft / Smithsonian Folkways (1939/1989)
- I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive – Hank Williams – MGM Records / Polydor (1952/1987)
- Sixteen Tons – Buddy Durham – Emperor Records / The Omni Recording Corporation / The Iron Mountain Analogue Research Facility (1955/2018)
- I’m Tired – Bright Light Quartet – Mississippi Records (1960/2010)