Hillbilly Blues
Show 8: The Dust Bowl's Legacy in Blues
This show follows the hard-weather road through drought, migration, and broke-down rural life. It argues that Dust Bowl music is not just a folk story or a country story (the blues is in its hunger, its motion, and its plain speech. Not every track here is structurally a blues) some are folk and country recordings with blues feeling and vocabulary running through them.
39Tracks
27Artists
5Theme Tags
5Genre Tags
This show follows the hard-weather road through drought, migration, and broke-down rural life. It argues that Dust Bowl music is not just a folk story or a country story (the blues is in its hunger, its motion, and its plain speech. Not every track here is structurally a blues) some are folk and country recordings with blues feeling and vocabulary running through them.
Tracklist
| Order | Track | Artist | Segment | Bridge | Story |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard Traveling | Woody Guthrie | 1 | - | |
| 2 | Dust Pneumonia Blues | Woody Guthrie | 1 | - | |
| 3 | Going Down the Road Feeling Bad | Woody Guthrie | 1 | - | |
| 4 | The Midnight Special | Lead Belly | 1 | - | |
| 5 | Hallelujah, I'm a Bum | Mac Harry" McClintock" | 1 | - | |
| 6 | The Great American Bum | Cisco Houston | 1 | - | |
| 7 | Lost Highway | Hank Williams | 1 | - | |
| 8 | Cool Water | Hank Williams | 1 | - | |
| 9 | Long Gone Lonesome Blues | Hank Williams,Drifting Cowboys | 1 | - | |
| 10 | Hobo Bill's Last Ride | Jimmie Rodgers | 1 | Yes | - |
| 11 | Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues) | Jimmie Rodgers | 2 | Yes | Story |
| 12 | New Muleskinner Blues | The Maddox Brothers & Rose | 2 | - | |
| 13 | Hangover Blues | The Maddox Brothers & Rose | 2 | - | |
| 14 | Oakie Boogie | Johnny Tyler | 2 | - | |
| 15 | Unemployment Stomp | Big Bill Broonzy | 2 | - | |
| 16 | Welfare Store Blues | Sonny Boy Williamson II | 2 | - | |
| 17 | Dear Okie | The Frontiersmen | 2 | - | |
| 18 | I Ain't Got Nobody | Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys,Jack Loyd | 2 | - | |
| 19 | Worried Man Blues | The Carter Family | 2 | - | |
| 20 | Which Side are You On? | The Almanac Singers | 2 | Yes | - |
| 22 | Collector Man Blues | Sonny Boy Williamson I | 3 | Story | |
| 26 | Your Troubles Are My Troubles | Merl Lindsay | 3 | - | |
| 27 | Too Many Blues | Bill Nettles | 3 | - | |
| 28 | Early Morning Blues | Bill Nettles,The Dixie Blues Boys | 3 | - | |
| 29 | The Farm Relief Song | Vernon Dalhart | 3 | Yes | - |
| 30 | CWA Blues | Joe Pullum | 4 | Yes | Story |
| 31 | All In Down And Out Blues | Uncle Dave Macon | 4 | - | |
| 32 | How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live | Alfred Blind" Reed" | 4 | - | |
| 33 | Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues | Woody Guthrie | 4 | - | |
| 34 | Pastures of Plenty | Woody Guthrie | 4 | - | |
| 35 | Pretty Boy Floyd | Woody Guthrie | 4 | - | |
| 36 | Dust Bowl Blues | Woody Guthrie | 4 | - | |
| 37 | Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been God to Know Yuh) | Woody Guthrie | 4 | - | |
| 38 | Do Re Mi | Woody Guthrie | 4 | Story | |
| 39 | Dust Bowl Refugee | Woody Guthrie | 4 | Story | |
| 35 Depression | Daddy Stovepipe,Mississippi Sarah | - | |||
| California Desert Blues | Lane Hardin | - | |||
| Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out | Scrapper Blackwell | - | |||
| Rye Whiskey | Tex Ritter | - |