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| 1. |
Labor Blues
- Tom Dickson |
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| 2. |
No Dough Blues
- Blind Blake |
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| 3. |
Down and out Blues
- Scrapper Blackwell |
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| 4. |
Starvation Blues
- Big Bill Broonzy |
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| 5. |
Bad Time Blues
- Barbecue Bob |
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| 6. |
Miss Meal Cramp Blues
- Alec Johnson |
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| 7. |
Shelby County Workhouse Blues
- Hambone Willie Newbern |
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| 8. |
We Sure Got Hard Times
- Barbecue Bob |
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| 9. |
Levee Camp Man Blues
- Gene Campbell |
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| 10. |
Hard Times on Me Blues
- Andy Chatman |
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| 11. |
Tough Times Blues
- Charley Jordan |
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| 12. |
Northern Starvers Are Returning Home
- Bo Carter / Charlie McCoy |
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| 13. |
Hard Times Done Drove Me to Drink
- Leroy Carr |
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| 14. |
Starvation Blues
- Charley Jordan |
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| 15. |
Hard Time Blues
- Charlie Spand |
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| 16. |
Chain Gang Bound
- Bumble Bee Slim |
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| 17. |
Days of the Weeks Blues
- Charley Jordan |
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| 18. |
Times Has Done Got So Hard
- King Solomon Hill |
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| 19. |
Hard Time Blues
- Carrie Edwards |
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| 20. |
The Depression Blues
- Leroy Carr |
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| 21. |
Turpentine Blues
- Tampa Red |
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| 22. |
Hard Time Blues
- Scrapper Blackwell |
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| 23. |
DeKalb Chain Gang
- Fred McMullen |
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| 24. |
Hard Time Blues
- Buddy Moss |
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| 25. |
Red Cross Blues
- Walter Roland |
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| 26. |
Red Cross Man
- Lucille Bogan |
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| 27. |
Coal Mountain Blues
- Sonny Scott |
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| 28. |
Red Cross Blues, No. 2
- Walter Roland |
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| 29. |
It's Hard Time
- Joe Stone |
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| 30. |
R.F.C. Blues
- Jack Kelly |
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| 31. |
Red Cross Blues
- Walter Davis |
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| 32. |
Sales Tax
- Mississippi Sheiks |
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| 33. |
Welfare Blues
- Joshua White |
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| 34. |
C.W.A. Blues
- Walter Roland |
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| 35. |
Starvation Farm Blues
- Bob Campbell |
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| 36. |
Charity Blues
- Charlie McCoy |
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| 37. |
Sylvester and His Mule Blues
- Memphis Minnie |
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| 38. |
Providence Help the Poor People
- Big Joe Williams |
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| 39. |
Meat and Bread Blues
- Blind Teddy Darby |
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| 40. |
Hard Time Blues
- Lane Hardin |
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| 41. |
Let's Have a Good Deal
- Carl Martin |
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| 42. |
Bonus Blues
- Joe Pullum |
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| 43. |
W.P.A. Blues
- Casey Bill Weldon |
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| 44. |
When I Get My Bonus
- Peetie Wheatstraw |
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| 45. |
When I Get My Money
- Bumble Bee Slim |
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| 46. |
I'm Gonna Have My Fun
- Carl Martin |
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| 47. |
Jungle Man Blues
- Peetie Wheatstraw |
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| 48. |
When the Soldiers Get Their Bonus
- Red Nelson |
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| 49. |
W.P.A. Blues
- Big Bill Broonzy |
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| 50. |
Don't Take Away My P.W.A.
- Jimmie Gordon |
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| 51. |
Hobo Jungle Blues
- Bumble Bee Slim |
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| 52. |
New Red Cross Blues
- Frank James |
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| 53. |
Working for the P.W.A.
- Black Ivory King |
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| 54. |
Government Money
- Sleepy John Estes |
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| 55. |
Working on the Project
- Peetie Wheatstraw |
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| 56. |
Hobo Jungle Blues
- Sleepy John Estes |
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| 57. |
Hard Times Ain't Gone No Where
- Lonnie Johnson |
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| 58. |
I Have Spent My Bonus
- Robert Lee McCoy |
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| 59. |
Relief Blues
- Red Nelson |
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| 60. |
Unemployment Stomp
- Big Bill Broonzy |
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| 61. |
304 Blues
- Peetie Wheatstraw |
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| 62. |
Old Bachelor Blues
- Son Bonds |
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| 63. |
Welfare Blues
- Calvin Frazier |
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| 64. |
Back in My Cell Again
- George Curry |
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| 65. |
Welfare Blues
- Speckled Red |
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| 66. |
C.C.C. Blues
- Washboard Sam |
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| 67. |
Welfare Blues
- Sampson Pittman |
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| 68. |
'29 Blues
- Alfred Fields |
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| 69. |
Charity Blues
- Gene Gilmore |
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| 70. |
Four-O-Three Blues
- Lonnie Johnson |
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| 71. |
Warehouse Man Blues
- Champion Jack Dupree |
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| 72. |
Nothing in Rambling
- Memphis Minnie |
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| 73. |
Hobo Blues
- Yank Rachell |
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| 74. |
Stamp Blues
- Tony Hollins |
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| 75. |
Hard Times Is on Me
- Ollie Shepard |
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| 76. |
Keep Straight Blues
- Guitar Slim / Jelly Belly |
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| 77. |
Red Cross Store Blues
- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee |
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| 78. |
Working Man Blues
- Guitar Slim / Jelly Belly |
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| 79. |
Post-War Future Blues
- Cousin Joe |
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| 80. |
Shipyard Woman
- Jim Wynn |
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| 81. |
Living in a Different World
- Roosevelt Sykes |
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| 82. |
Reconversion Blues
- Ivory Joe Hunter |
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| 83. |
Sunny Road
- Roosevelt Sykes |
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| 84. |
Bonus Pay
- Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson |
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| 85. |
Luxury Tax Blues
- Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson |
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| 86. |
Unemployment Blues
- Smokey Hogg |
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| 87. |
Hard Times
- Smokey Hogg |
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| 88. |
Stockyard Blues
- Floyd Jones |
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| 89. |
High Cost Low Pay Blues
- Ivory Joe Hunter |
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| 90. |
Homeless Blues
- Willie "Long Time" Smith |
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| 91. |
Inflation Blues
- Jack McVea |
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| 92. |
Strike Blues
- L.C. Williams |
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| 93. |
Strike Blues
- John Lee Hooker |
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| 94. |
Cotton Picking Blues
- Big Mama Thornton |
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| 95. |
Ain't Times Hard
- Floyd Jones |
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| 96. |
Tough Times
- John Brim |
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| 97. |
Depression Blues
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown |
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| 98. |
The Panic's On
- Jimmy McCracklin |
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| 99. |
Things Are So Slow
- J.B. Hutto |
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| 100. |
Eisenhower Blues
- J.B. Lenoir |
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