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The New Lost City Ramblers - Modern Times - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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As Southern mountaineers and farmers moved into an industrialized era of coal mines and weaving mills their rural songs evolved to express the confrontation with new modes of life and the ensuing conflicts. This album chronicles just that through songs originating in the 1920s and 1930s demonstrating a mix of styles and influences brought to older folk modes with modern subject matters (machines, cars etc.). Producer John Cohen says in the liner notes InchThe study of folklore is not simply to preserve the past, but to make the present more comprehensible.Inch Album Tracks 1. Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek 2. 31' Depression Blues 3. That Little Lump of Coal 4. Union Man 5. Got the Farm Land Blues 6. We Are Up Against It Now 7. From Earth to Heaven 8. Henry Ford's Model a 9. Truck Driving Man 10. Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week 11. Dear Okie 12. From 40 to 65 13. Private John Q 14. Weaver's Life 15. The Death of Ellenton 16. Take Them for a Ride 17. Timetable Blues 18. Bye, Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo

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    As Southern mountaineers and farmers moved into an industrialized era of coal mines and weaving mills their rural songs evolved to express the confrontation with new modes of life and the ensuing conflicts. This album chronicles just that through songs originating in the 1920s and 1930s demonstrating a mix of styles and influences brought to older folk modes with modern subject matters (machines, cars etc.). Producer John Cohen says in the liner notes InchThe study of folklore is not simply to preserve the past, but to make the present more comprehensible.Inch Album Tracks 1. Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek 2. 31' Depression Blues 3. That Little Lump of Coal 4. Union Man 5. Got the Farm Land Blues 6. We Are Up Against It Now 7. From Earth to Heaven 8. Henry Ford's Model a 9. Truck Driving Man 10. Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week 11. Dear Okie 12. From 40 to 65 13. Private John Q 14. Weaver's Life 15. The Death of Ellenton 16. Take Them for a Ride 17. Timetable Blues 18. Bye, Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo
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    The New Lost City Ramblers
    Title
    Modern Times
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    CD
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    Folkways Records
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