Birth Work Death / Various Birth Work Death / Various CD

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.

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