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1	Off Business Take 2	6:01
2	Mississippi Bound	6:41
3	You've Got To Keeo On Tryin'	6:13
4	Ain't Never Had Nothing	3:19
5	Born In Poverty	4:42
6	Marcelle Morgantini's Cassoulet	6:06
7	Your Love	3:31
8	Tribute To Orange	4:25
9	Off Business Take 1	7:20
10	Instrumental Shuffle	3:32
11	Life Is A Mean Mistreater	6:10
12	Mean Atlantic Ocean	5:43
13	Marcelle, Jacques Et Luc	3:56
14	It Serves You Right To Shuffer Written-By – John Lee Hooker	3:42
15	Ode To Billie Joe Written-By – Bobby Gentry*	3:00

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – Night & Day
• Recorded At – Studio Condorcet
• Recorded At – Studios Barclay

Credits

• Artwork [Graphic Design] – Jean-Marc Fritz, Jean-Michel Proust
• Bass – James Green* (tracks: 11-15)
• Drums – Bob Plunkett (tracks: 11-15), Ted Harvey (tracks: 1-10)
• Guitar – Mac Thompson* (tracks: 1-10), Otis Rush (tracks: 11-15)
• Liner Notes – Jacques Périn
• Organ – Jerome Van Jones (tracks: 11-15)
• Other [Director Of Collection "blues Reference"] – Jacques Périn, Jean-Marc Fritz, Jean-Michel Proust
• Photography By – David Mangin, Jean-Pierre Arniac, Jean-Pierre Tahmazian
• Piano – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown* (tracks: 1-10)
• Recorded By – Peter Dobler*
• Remastered By [Digitally] – Xavier Brunetière
• Supervised By – Jacques Morgantini
• Vocals, Guitar – Jimmy Dawkins

Notes

Recorded November 30, 1971, at the Condorcet Studio in Toulouse, France (Track 1-10)
Recorded November 26, 1974, at the Barlay Studio in Paris, France (Track 11-15)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Scanned): 3 448961 042924
• Other (Spars Code): AAD
• Rights Society: SACEM

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BLU-CD 3074, BLU - CD 3074	Jimmy Dawkins	Born In Poverty ‎(CD, Comp, RM)	Editions Atlas, Guilde Internationale Du Disque, Editions Atlas, Guilde Internationale Du Disque	BLU-CD 3074, BLU - CD 3074	France	1993