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It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In

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Released
  
1975

Length
  
32:57 (LP) 48:49 (CD)

Release date
  
1975

Label
  
Rounder Records

Recorded
  
1973; Americus, GA

Artist
  
Pearly Brown

Producer
  
Bill Nowlin

Genre
  
Gospel blues

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It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In is a 1975 gospel blues LP by American street-performing musician Reverend Pearly Brown (1915–86, vocals, guitar and harmonica, active in Macon, Georgia) on the Rounder label.

Contents

Track listing

Side 1
  1. "How Long Has It Been Since You've Been Home"
  2. "The Day Is Past and Gone"
  3. "It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In"
  4. "What a Time"
  5. "Pure Religion"
  6. "Help Me to Understand"
Side 2
  1. "How About You"
  2. "Nothin' but Joy"
  3. "Another Child of God Gone Home"
  4. "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burnin'"
  5. "Please Mommy Stay Home with Me"
  6. "Peace Will Prevail"
  7. "Goodbye"
Bonus tracks on CD re-release Rounder 82161-0221-2

These are placed between "Peace Will Prevail" and "Goodbye" in the original release order.

  1. "Steal Away"
  2. "You Got to Move"
  3. "I Know the Lord Will Make a Way"
  4. "Sometimes I Feel Like My Time Ain't Long"
  5. "Motherless Children"
  6. "When I Take My Vacation"

References

It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In Wikipedia
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