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On Deeper Roots …”The 99 Percent Blues”, featuring music reflecting on the Great Depression, The Dust Bowl, and the recent financial crisis…songs and stories of the working class. We take a trip back to the twenties and share with you the sounds of Vernon Delhart, Joe Stone, Harry McClintock, and others…and we’ll share the more contemporary songs of Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, and Uncle Tupelo.

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1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Uncle Dave Macon	All In Down And Out Blues [2003 Remastered]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
3	Joe Stone	It's Hard Time	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
4	Vernon Dalhart	The Farm Relief Song	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
5	Charlie McFadden	Times Are So Tight	Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
6	Snooks and the Memphis Ramblers,Julia Gerity and Her Boys	Sittin' on a Rubbish Can [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
7	Ry Cooder	No Banker Left Behind	Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
8	Little Village	Do You Want My Job	Little Village
9	The Reverend J.M. Gates	President Roosevelt Is Everybody's Friend [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
10	Randy Newman	Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)	Good Old Boys [Expanded] Disc 1
11	The Weavers	Brother Can You Spare a Dime	The Weavers Almanac
12	Cisco Houston	Do Re Mi	Best Of The Vanguard Years
13	Woody Guthrie	Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh) [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
14	Mac "Harry" McClintock	Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
15	Fiddlin' John Carson	Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Them All [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
16	Ry Cooder	Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Us All	Into The Purple Valley
17	Hank Penny	Taxes Taxes	Bob Dylan: Radio Radio – Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 5 [Disc 4]
18	Ralph Willis	Income Tax Blues	Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
19	Fenton Robinson	Somebody Loan Me A Dime	Living The Blues: The 70's Blues Classics
20	Bob Miller	The Rich Man And The Poor Man [Rematered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
21	Roy Bargy;Ramona	Raising the Rent [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
22	Bing Crosby	Brother Can You Spare A Dime?	Columbia Records' 125th Anniv.
23	William (Bill) Moore	Ragtime Millionaire	1927-30-Ragtime Blues Guitar
24	Lead Belly	The Bourgeois Blues	Best Of Leadbelly
25	Ry Cooder	The Bourgeois Blues	Chicken Skin Music
26	Uncle Tupelo	No Depression	No Depression
27	Sheryl Crow	No Depression In Heaven	The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family
28	The Carter Family	No Depression In Heaven	Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Volume Four
29	David McCarn	Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic No. 2)	Gastonia Gallop – Cotton Mill Songs & Hillbilly Blues 1927-1931
30	Cedar Creek Sheik	Jimmy Shut His Store Doors [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
31	Woody Guthrie	The Jolly Banker (Woody Guthrie)	Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection [Disc 2]
32	Bo Carter	Times Is Tight Like That	Bankers Blues – A Study in the Effects of Fiscal Mischeif
33	Woody Guthrie	Pastures of Plenty	Dust Bowl Blues

Blues from the Mississippi Delta highlights this episode of Deeper Roots: A Century of America’s Music. The sounds are as deep and wide as the river and area of the south that gave it its name. The traditional music of all of the sounds that passed through, from the Civil War, to the music from the hills, the barrooms, brothels, and front porches are blended into a raw and sinuous sound that moved north with its performers, landing in the urban stages of the north. Chicago, New York, St. Louis, and Detroit…all born in the Mississippi Delta. We’ll start with Charley Patton, Garfield Akins, and Robert Johnson and work our way forward to Johnny Shines, Robert Lockwood Jr., and Honeyboy Edwards.

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