Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne
All In, Down and Out: The Great Depression in Song and Story
All In, Down and Out: The Great Depression in Song and Story
Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne present their newest historical concert-lecture, All In, Down and Out: The Great Depression in Song and Story. The premiere performance will take place on October 29, the 80th anniversary of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
The Great Depression inspired an amazing body of American popular and folk song. Woody Guthrie, Langston Hughes, Irving Berlin, Blind Alfred Reed, Vernon Dalhart, E.Y. Harburg, Bessie Smith, and others gave us takes on many different aspects of the Depression. The songs are interwoven with readings from outstanding writers and wits of the day, as well as from ordinary working people.
Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne bring verve and authenticity to their performances of historic American folk and popular music. Jane Voss sings and plays guitar in styles inspired by such American roots pioneers as Mother Maybelle Carter and Memphis Minnie. Hoyle Osborne is a master of early blues, jazz, and ragtime piano styles. Voss & Osborne have appeared at music festivals, in concerts, and at schools, colleges, and museums all across North America.
All In, Down and Out is part of the Chautauqua Program of the New Mexico Humanities Council.
Song selections (subject to change)
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out (1929) Bessie Smith (Jimmy Cox)
Happy Days Are Here Again (1929) Annette Hanshaw (words by Jack Yellen • music by Milton Ager)
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? (1929) Blind Alfred Reed
If I Ever Get a Job Again (1932) Dick Robertson
(words by Sam M. Lewis • music by Abel Baer)
Which Side Are You On? (1931) Florence Reece
The Farm Relief Song (1929)
Vernon Dalhart (Bernard Smith & Betsy White)
What’s the Matter With the Mill? (1931)
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy
All In, Down and Out Blues (1937)
Uncle Dave Macon
Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee (Face the Music) (1932) Waring’s Pennsylvanians (Irving Berlin)
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out (1929) Bessie Smith (Jimmy Cox)
Happy Days Are Here Again (1929) Annette Hanshaw (words by Jack Yellen • music by Milton Ager)
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? (1929) Blind Alfred Reed
If I Ever Get a Job Again (1932) Dick Robertson
(words by Sam M. Lewis • music by Abel Baer)
Which Side Are You On? (1931) Florence Reece
The Farm Relief Song (1929)
Vernon Dalhart (Bernard Smith & Betsy White)
What’s the Matter With the Mill? (1931)
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy
All In, Down and Out Blues (1937)
Uncle Dave Macon
Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee (Face the Music) (1932) Waring’s Pennsylvanians (Irving Berlin)
Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz! (1931) Eddie Cantor
(Norman Anthony, Mischa Portnoff & Wesley Portnoff)
The Rich Man and the Poor Man (1932)
Bob Miller (Jack Stanley & A.J. Adams)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(Americana) (1932) Bing Crosby
(words by E.Y. Harburg • music by Jay Gorney)
Do-Re-Mi (1937) Woody Guthrie
Hungry Blues (De Organizer) (1939)
Anna Robinson (words by Langston Hughes •
music by James P. Johnson)
Pennies from Heaven (1937) Bing Crosby
(words by John Burke • music by Arthur Johnston)
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Back Again (1936) Bill Cox
Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh) (1937) Woody Guthrie
(Norman Anthony, Mischa Portnoff & Wesley Portnoff)
The Rich Man and the Poor Man (1932)
Bob Miller (Jack Stanley & A.J. Adams)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(Americana) (1932) Bing Crosby
(words by E.Y. Harburg • music by Jay Gorney)
Do-
Hungry Blues (De Organizer) (1939)
Anna Robinson (words by Langston Hughes •
music by James P. Johnson)
Pennies from Heaven (1937) Bing Crosby
(words by John Burke • music by Arthur Johnston)
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Back Again (1936) Bill Cox
Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh) (1937) Woody Guthrie
Available in 2009 through the Chautauqua Program of the New Mexico Humanities Council.
Bibliography / discography posted at Amazon.
Bibliography / discography posted at Amazon.
Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne
122 North Mesa Verde Avenue
Aztec, NM 87410
505/334-9716
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122 North Mesa Verde Avenue
Aztec, NM 87410
505/334-
