Times Ain't Like They Used to Be

Times Ain't Like They Used to Be
Studio album by various artists
Publication (s)	1997
Label (s)	Yazoo Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	American roots music

Times Ain't Like They Used to Be is a compilation series from Yazoo Records . The series includes a total of eight CDs and one DVD, which offers a cross-section of American roots music, i.e. blues , folk and old-time music as well as gospel . All recordings are from the 1920s and 1930s.

The first CD, Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 1 , was released on April 22, 1997. In addition to the eight CDs, there is a DVD containing original recordings by artists from the time, such as Ernest Stoneman , Buell Kazee , includes the Memphis Jug Band or the Nugrape Twins .

Publications

CDs

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 1

Buell Kazee

1. Blues in a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt
2. Dollar Bill Blues - Charlie Jordan
3. Lost John Dean - Bascom Lamar Lundford
4. Streak of Lean, Streak of Flat - AA Gray & Seven Foot Dilly
5. Sinking of the Titanic - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
6. Tennessee Girls - Dykes Magic City Trio
7. Shotgun Blues - Bob Campbell
8. Train on the Island - JP Nestor & Normon Edmonds
9. The Fault's in Me - The Four Wanders
10. The Trail of Haley's Comet - Happy Hayseeds
11. Wake Up You Drowsy Sleeper - The Oaks Family
12. How You Want Your Rollin 'Done - Louis Lasky
13. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss - Frank Blevins and his Tar Heel Rattlers
14. On the Road Again - Memphis Jug Band
15. The Dying Soldier - Buell Kazee
16. Voice Throwin 'Blues - Buddy Boy Hawkins
17. Been on the Job Too Long - Wilmer Watts & the Lonely Eagles
18. Fannie Moore - Ken Maynard
19. I Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape - Nugrape Twins
20. The Old Miller's Will - The Carson Brothers & Sprinkle
21. Skinner - Winston Holmes & Charlie Turner
22. How to Make Love - Southern Moonlight Entertainers
23. Old Jimmie Sutton - Grayson and Whitter

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 2

Cannon's Jug Stompers

1. John Henry Blues - Earl Johnson and his Dixie Entertainers
2. Moanin 'the Blues - Allen Shaw
3. Lonesome Road Blues - Ernest Stoneman
4. Washboard Cut Out - Bobby Leegan and his Need More Band
5. Bob McKinney - Henry Thomas
6. Swanee River - Fiddlin 'John Carson and his Virginia Reelers
7. James Alley Blues - Richard "Rabbit" Brown
8. Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon and his Fruit Jar Drinkers
9. The Rooster's Crowing Blues - Cannon's Jug Stompers
10. Tallapoosa Bound - AA Gray & Seven Foot Dilly
11. Billy Grimes the Rover - The Shelor Family
12. Brown Skin Girl Down the Line - The Massey Family
13. You Know You Done Me Wrong - Joe McCoy
14. Old Joe - Sid Harkreader & Grady Moore
15. Beware - Blind Alfred Reed
16. Knocking Down Casey Jones - Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles
17. Four Day Blues - Tommy Bradley
18. Riley the Furniture Man - The Georgia Crackers
19. Piney Woods Girl - Ernest Stoneman & Emmett Lundy
20. State Street Rag - Louie Bluie
21. Sugar In The Ground - The Tweedy Brothers
22. Then I'll Move to Town - Southern Moonlight Entertainers
23. Lord Keep Me With a Mind - Reverend DC Rice

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 3

1. I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole - Blind Willie Johnson
2. Barth House Blues - Ashley's Melody Men
3. Worried Blues - Frank Hutchison
4. Snake Doctor Blues - Jelly Jaw Short
5. Acom Stomp - East Texas Serenaders
6. Sal's Got a Meatskin - The Carlisle Brothers
7. Streetcar Blues - Sleepy John Estes
8. Fort Smith Breakdown - Luke Hightning & his Ozark Strutters
9. Sleepy Desert - Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles
10. Walking Blues - Son House
11. Sweet Rivers - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
12. Gonna Die With My Hammer In My Hand - Williamson Brothers & Curry
13. Mean Black Cat - Charley Patton
14. Billy in the Low Ground - Lowe Stokes
15. Good Time Blues - Jelly Roll Anderson
16. Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over - Fiddlin 'John Carson and his Virginia Reelers
17. Steel Drivin 'Man - Fruit Jar Guzzler
18. I'm So Glad - Skip James
19. Rock About My Sarah Jane - Uncle Dave Macon and his Fruit Jar Drinkers
20. I'm Talking My Audition to Sing Up in the Sky - Cap, Andy and Flip
21. Undertaker Blues - Buster Johnson & James Cole's Washboard Band
22. Sally Johnson - Oscar Harper's Texas String Band
23. I'll Stay On The Right Road Now - Fa Sol La Singers

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 4

Cliff Carlisle

1. Lowe Bonnie - Jimmie Tarlton
2. Early Morning Blues - William Harris
3. Billy In The Lowground - Burnett and Rutherford
4. Rambling Gambler - The Dixon Brothers
5. Every Day in the Week Blues - Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
6. I Got a Bulldog - The Sweet Brothers
7. Tom Cat Blues - Cliff Carlisle
8. Preacher Blues - Hi Henry Brown
9. Salt River - The Kessinger Brothers
10. Blushing Bride - The Golden Melody Boys
11. Kiss Me Quick - Georgia Yellow Hammers
12. Magnolia Blues - Charley Patton
13. Perrodin Two Step - Angelas le Jeunne
14. Bachelor's Hall - Fiddlin 'John Carson
15. Walking Shoes (Bottom Up Shoes) - Tommy Johnson
16. Wolves Howling - The Stripling Brothers
17. Mistreated the Only Friend You Had - James Cole and his Washboard Band
18. Havana River Guide - Martin & Hobbs
19. I Want Two Wings to Veil My Face - Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers
20. Make Down The Bed and We'll All Sleep Together - Jess Hillard and his West Virginia Hillbillies
21. Special Rider Blues - Skip James
22. Walk Right in Belmont - Watts & Wilson
23. Leaving All to Follow Jesus - Rev. Rice & Congregation

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 5

Lowe Stokes

1. Railroad Blues - Sam McGee
2. Step Stone - Floyd County Ramblers
3. Hard Time Killin 'Floor Blues - Skip James
4. Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band
5. Doggone That Train - Jimmie Davis
6. Framer's Blues - Eli Framer
7. No Room for a Tramp - Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston
8. Just Over the River - Garland Brothers & Grinstead
9. Mule Skinner Moan - Ben Covington
10. Shortening Bread - Reaves White County Ramblers
11. Black-Eyed Susie - JP Nestor & Norman Edmonds
12. A Rag Blues - Buddy Boy Hawkins
13. Railroad Blues - Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston
14. Way Down in North Carolina - Grayson County Railsplitters
15. Citaco - The Swamp Rooters ( AA Gray & Lowe Stokes )
16. Pistol Blues - Unknown Artist
17. Boat Song March - Murphy Brothers Band
18. I've Got No Honey Babe Now - Frank Blevins and his Tar Heels Rattlers
19. Bonnie Bess - Wilmer Watts and the Lonely Eagles
20. Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
21. Hamilton's Special Breakdown - Wyzee, Tucker & Lecroy
22. Johnny Goodwin - Bull Mountain Moonshiners
23. Some Happy Day - Charley Patton

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 6

Eck Robertson

1. Robinson County - Birkhead & Lane
2. Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party - Floyd County Ramblers
3. It's Cold in China - Mississippi Moaner
4. Sail Away Lady - Parker & Dodd
5. I'm Going Away in the Morn - Uncle Dave Macon and his Fruit Jar Drinkers
6. Seven Sister Blues - Tenderfoot Edwards
7. Cousin Sally Brown - Virginia Mountain Boomers
8. Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo Git Along Little Dogies - Girls of the Golden West
9. Cherry Ball Blues - Skip James
10. Milwaukee Blues - Roy Harvey & Jess Johnston
11. Davy - Weems String Band
12. God Didn't Make Me No Monkey Man - Eli Framer
13. Sally Gooden - Eck Robertson
14. My Trouble Blues - Jess Johnston & Byrd Moore
15. Prayer of Death, Part 2 - Charley Patton
16. Cheat 'Em - Red Headed Fiddlers
17. Jesus Paved the Way - Dewey & Gassie Bassett
18. Caroline - Louis Lasky
19. Swamp Cat Rag - The Swamp Rooters
20. Ten Cent Piece - Reaves White County Ramblers
21. Ninety Nine Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
22. Rolling River - Jess Hillard and his West Virginia Hillbillies
23. At the Cross - Turney Brothers

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 7

Fiddlin 'John Carson

1. Bust Down Stomp - Seven Foot Dilly and his Dill Pickles
2. Dixie Mail - Jimmie Tarlton
3. Times Has Done Got Hard Blues - King Solomon Hill
4. Mineola Rag - East Texas Serenaders
5. Christ Arose - Sheffield Male Quartet
6. Rainy Night Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
7. Good Gal Remember Me - Three Tobacco Tags
8. Texas Quickstep - Red Headed Fiddlers
9. Ham Bone Blues - Ed Bell
10. Cannonball Rag - David Miller
11. Little More Sugar in the Coffey / Peter Went a-Fishin ' - Fiddlin' John Carson and his Virginia Reelers
12. Devil and My Brown Shoes - Bo Weavil Jackson
13. Horseshoe Band - Stripling Brothers
14. Primrose Hill - Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers
15. Hard Luck Child - Skip James
16. Go On, Nora Lee - Uncle Dave Macon & Sam McGee
17. Jeunes Gens Campagnard - Dennis McGee
18. I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan One of These Days - Jay Bird Coleman
19. Only a Tramp - Uncle Pete and Louise
20. Jack of Diamonds - Ben Jarrel & Frank Jenkins
21. Dry Spell House, Part. 1 - Son House
22. Pike's Peak - Ted Sharp, Hinman & Sharp
23. I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go - Old Southern Sacred Singers

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be, Vol. 8

Frank Hutchison

1. It's Just Like Heaven - Vaughan Quartet
2. The Steeley Rag - Red Headed Fiddler
3. Paddlin 'Blues - Gitfiddle Jim
4. Sand Mountain Drag - Dilly and his Dill Pickles
5. Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs
6. My Buddy Blind Papa Lemon - King Solomon Hill
7. The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers
8. The Girl That Carried the Girl from Town - Frank Hutchison
9. You Can't Keep No Brown - Bo Weavil Jackson
10. Mother Is with the Angels - Wright Brothers Quartet
11. Rambling Lover - Dick Reinhart
12. O'Clock Blues - Skip James
13. Yellow Rose of Texas - Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters
14. Gonna Ride Till the Sun Goes Down - Johnny Barfield
15. Mamlish Blues - Ed Bell
16. Robinson County - Ted Sharp, Hinman and Sharp
17. Valse Des Vachers - Dennis McGee
18. Jailhouse Rag - David Miller
19. I Want Someone to Love Me - Tommy Johnson
20. Tennessee Tornado - Uncle Dave Macon & McGee Brothers
21. Roving Cowboy - Frank Jenkins
22. Big Bend Gal - Shelor Family
23. Yes! Tis Me - Reverend WM Mosley

DVD

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be (DVD)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All Music Guide
2. ↑ All Music Guide
3. ↑ Yazoo ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Yazoo ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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6. ↑ Yazoo ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be on Allmusic (English)