The art book format also compiles complete lyrics, a bibliography, discography, rare photos and ephemera, and an essay by Olson. The CD also includes three songs recorded by Alfred's son Arville Reed (mistakenly published as "Orville Reed" on the original 78s), two of which feature his band the West Virginia Night Owls. The 2015 CD and liner notes, Blind Alfred Reed: Appalachian Visionary, produced by East Tennessee State University professor Ted Olson and released by record label Dust-to-Digital, offers a newly remastered volume of Reed's entire recorded output, beginning with the 1927 "Big Bang of Country Music," The Bristol Sessions, and culminating with the recordings from Reed's final 1929 session. He recorded "How Can a Poor Man?" in New York on December 4, 1929, one week after the stock market crash. It's impossible to know how Reed-a deeply religious, lifelong Republican whose songs were heavily critical of capitalism-would feel about these subsequent versions, but he would undoubtedly be surprised by the song's longevity. That song, "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live," was composed in the Jazz Age by Southern West Virginia farmer and musician Blind Alfred Reed (1880–1956).
In 2013, British reggae band UB40 released a regrettable version of the same song on their new album, also taking lyrical liberties, in this instance to reflect concerns over the global financial crisis.
He kept only one original verse, adding his own to comment on the devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and to critique President Bush (or "president bystander" as he calls him at one show) for his subsequent inaction. In 2006, during his Seeger Session Tour, Bruce Springsteen added an old song from the early days of the recording industry to his live sets.
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