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Artist: Various Artists
Title: Birth Work Death - Work, Money And Status In Country Music (1950-1970)
Format: CD
Label: OMNI RECORDING CORP.
Catalog Number:197
Barcode:934334407610 itemnumber=1000122771
Price: $20.98  (All prices include domestic shipping.)
Genre: COUNTRY & WESTERN
Release Date: 11/2/2018
Availability: In Stock
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From the people who brought you 'Hillbillies In Hell'...Blood, Sweat and Tears. 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.

Track Listing
 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

 9. 
Tex Williams - Money

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



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