From heavy to humorous, songs about $$$ abound in roots music. Smithsonian Folkways digs into the pockets of the past and comes up with Do-Re-Mi Woody Guthrie; Business Pete Seeger; Gallis Pole Leadbelly; One Meat Ball Josh White; Union Maid Almanac Singers; Greenback Dollar Kilby Snow 27 vintage tracks!
2 Empty Pocket Blues (Barrel of Money Blues) - Pete Seeger
3 Do-Re-Mi - Woody Guthrie
4 Bill Morgan and His Gal - the New Lost City Ramblers
5 One Meat Ball - Josh White
6 Jim Fisk - June Lazare
7 Gallis Pole - Lead Belly
8 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - Joe Glazer
9 Yankee Dollar - Lord Invader
10 If I Had a Million Dollars - Speckled Red
11 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Rolf Cahn & Eric Von Schmidt
12 If I Lose, I Don't Care - the New Lost City Ramblers
13 Banks of Marble - Pete Seeger
14 The Old Arm Chair - Gale Huntington
15 The Money Rolls in - Derek Lamb
16 Business - Pete Seeger
17 If You Lose Your Money - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
18 Union Maid - the Almanac Singers
19 Greenback Dollar - Kilby Snow
20 The Miller and His Sons - Horton Barker
21 Penny's Farm - Pete Seeger
22 Billy Grimes the Rover - the New Lost City Ramblers
23 Ida Mae (The Social Security Song) - Joe Glazer
24 Last Gold Dollar - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
25 Black Dog Blues - the Stoneman Family
26 I Don't Want Your Millions - the Almanac Singers
27 Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie
From heavy to humorous, songs about $$$ abound in roots music. Smithsonian Folkways digs into the pockets of the past and comes up with Do-Re-Mi Woody Guthrie; Business Pete Seeger; Gallis Pole Leadbelly; One Meat Ball Josh White; Union Maid Almanac Singers; Greenback Dollar Kilby Snow 27 vintage tracks!