Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-1936

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

The release with early country music features 19 previously un-reissued sides.

Original discs from the collections of Don Wahle, Frank Mare and Joe Bussard.

Three CDs plus booklet in a CD-size cardboard box. CD rear is black.

Annotation last modified on 2016-06-02 11:53 UTC.

Tracklist

▶ CD 1: Hard Time Music 1923-1930
▶ CD 2: Good Time Music 1927-1935
▼ CD 3: End Time Music 1927-1936
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1You've Got to Stop Drinking Shine
recording of:
You've Got to Stop Drinking Shine (not "You Better Quit Drinking Shine") (in 1930)
Gid Tanner3:04
2Climbing the Golden Stairs
Happy Four2:57
3Oh Declare His Glory
McDonald Quartette3:07
4Easter Days
Dixon Brothers3:02
5I'm S-A-V-E-D
Georgia Yellow Hammers3:00
6Way to Glory Land
The Corley Family2:47
7You Must Be a Lover of the Lord
Grayson County Railsplitters3:10
8The Gambler's Dying Words
Sid Harkreader and Grady Moore2:43
9I'm on My Way
Kentucky Holiness Singers3:12
10Leave It There
Snowball & Sunshine3:05
11Where We'll Never Grow Old
recorded in:
Bristol, United States (from 1927-02 until 1927-07-29)
producer:
Ralph Peer (on 1927-07-29)
guitar:
Alfred G. Karnes (on 1927-07-29)
vocals:
Alfred G. Karnes (on 1927-07-29)
recording of:
Where We’ll Never Grow Old (on 1927-07-29)
lyricist and composer:
George Jones (US country music vocalist) and James C. Moore
Alfred G. Karnes3:18
12If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul
recorded in:
Bristol, United States (on 1928-10-29)
banjo:
Eula Johnson (on 1928-10-29)
guitar:
Shirley Jones (active 1928) (on 1928-10-29)
mandolin:
Ancil McVay (1920s country mandolin player) (on 1928-10-29)
piano:
Ethel Baker (on 1928-10-29)
violin:
Roland Johnson (1920s country violin player) (on 1928-10-29) and Ernest Phipps (on 1928-10-29)
vocals:
A. G. Baker (on 1928-10-29), Nora Byrley (on 1928-10-29), Alfred G. Karnes (on 1928-10-29) and Minnie Phipps (on 1928-10-29)
chorus master:
Ernest Phipps (on 1928-10-29)
recording of:
If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul (on 1928-10-29)
composer:
Curtis J. Williams
arranger:
Ernest Phipps
Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers3:02
13When the Moon Drips Away Into the Blood
Taylor-Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers2:27
14Beyond the Starry Plane
Red Brush Singers3:11
15My Christian Friends in Bonds of Love
Elder Golden P. Harris3:13