Saturday Jukebox – Hard Times

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1. John Townes Van Zandt – Let Him Roll (Guy Clark)
   

2. Hard times come again no more

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YrfLnlrquo
   

   1. If I’m not mistaken, that is the beautiful Emmylou Harris singing at 2:48 of that video. I have always thought that the angels in Heaven must have voices very much like Emmylou. What a lovely piece of choral harmony. Thank you for sharing.

3. Tom Russell – The Most Dangerous Woman in America

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-73YR0hddc

   Three weeks out of prison, he drives the cold Missouri night
   Through strip malls and abandon mines out on the left and the right
   He drives into Mount Olive and the Becker Funeral Home
   Where his daddy’s lying with a cold hard stare, black lung and broken bone
   The most dangerous woman in America is buried on the edge of town
   Lookout ma, another miner’s goin’ down.
   

5. Ryan Bingham doing, of course, Hard Times:

6. There are a dozen Springsteen songs that would qualify as “hard times songs”. Here is a particularly poignant rendering of “The River” that the Boss performed at Madison Square Garden:

   (Written in 1982 in the depths of the Reagan recession…..)

7. 50 years young:
   

8. Those are four fine ballads. Now lets raise the ante with this classic end times piece: