Out Oct. 19.
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32 timeless tales of clanging Hammers and pounding Shovels - from wry,
dry working-stiff diatribes to bare-chested exclamations - Birth / Work /
Death maps the human work experience from anger to joy, poverty to
riches. From the muck-crusted mines to late-night jukeboxes - backwoods
outsiders and Nashville icons alike waxed odes to the entwined
necessities of Work and Money, Status and Competition, Survival and
Servitude. Harrowing laments of dank deaths underground, fevered hymns
to Mammon, snide ripostes to debt-bondage and exuberant celebrations of
family and sustenance. Most originally waxed on private press labels and
distributed in tiny amounts, these town criers and tavern-bound
troubadours sing of golden highways, slothful byways, factory-floor
drudgery and fallow, heartbreaking fields. Years in the making - 'Birth /
Work / Death' presents calloused anthems and bloody ballads from dusty
LPs and long forgotten 45s. All for your lunch-hour listening pleasure.
Tracks:
1. Bill Carter - By The Sweat Of My Brow
2. Bobby Barnett - Workin' Man
3. Tex Ritter - The Workingman's Prayer
4. Mr. Connie Dycus - Dark As A Dungeon
5. Dave Dudley - Workin' Hands
6. Eddie Noack - Cotton Mill
7. The Westport Kids - You Kain't Take It With You
8. Arlie Duff - Money Hungry
10. Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons '65
11. Charlie Gore - Black Diamond
12. Howard Vokes - The Miner
13. The Wray Brothers - Down In The Mine
14. George Davis - Little Lump Of Coal
15. Doc Williams - Don't Want To Work
16. David Hiser - On Strike
17. Buddy Durham - Sixteen Tons
18. Sunshine Boys Quartet - Checking Up On My Payments
19. Slim Willet - Come Sundown
20. Dewitt Lee - Poor Man
21. Rusty Dunn With Wayne Roberts & The Countrymen - Production Line
22. Billy Parker - It Takes A Lot Of Money
23. Phil Brown with Bill Wood's Band - You're A Luxury
24. Daily Carson - He Ain't Got Nothing But A Cadillac
25. Perry Tonightus And The Heart Burn - Living On The Welfare Check
26. Tommy Dee - Welfare Cadillac
27. Harold Montgomery & his Star Lighters - All Them Wives
28. Jay Lee Webb - Finance Company Waltz
29. Jack Shaw - Black Lung
30. Rev. Joe Freeman - There Will Be No Black Lung - Up In Heaven
31. Stan Farlow - 1040 Blues
32. Ray Winfree - Poor Man's Blues