We Ain't Got No Hard Times At All

Country music has never been known for it's grammar, but Hard Times is one of the best songs I've ever heard.  After listen to The Worst Hard Time, I am yet again reminded that I ain't got no hard times, indeed.  In keeping with my plan to listen to books that coincide with my travels I chose this nonfiction work about the Dust Bowl.  I admit the most I knew about the "Dirty Thirties" as they were called was what I learned in school and the excellent HBO series Carnivale.  As I drove from Goodlettsville, through Arkansas, Texas and out to Albuquerque, NM, I learned a great deal in this well done book that reads like fiction.  If you're like me, that's a good thing.  It wasn't as gripping as The Devil in the White City, but it was really worth listening to, especially while crossing the Texas panhandle and seeing the land to which the author refers.  It is a long book, and it gets a little repetitive in places, but it's worth it.