The New Lost City Ramblers - Sing Songs of the New Lost City Ramblers - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In the traditional string band style, longtime Folkways recording artists The New Lost City Ramblers offer up 18 topical songs written by country singers during the dark days of the Great Depression. Many of the songs are from commercial recordings, mostly from the South, and field recordings made during the Farm Resettlement Program; they illustrate the economic and social depression that affected this area, often long after prosperity began to return to American's urban centers. Band members Tom Paley, John Cohen, and Mike Seeger contributed to the liner notes, which contain background information on the Great Depression as well as song lyrics. Album Tracks 1. No Depression in Heaven 2. There'll Be No Distinction There 3. Breadline Blues 4. White House Blues 5. Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again 6. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live 7. Keep Moving 8. Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All 9. Serves Them Fine 10. Nra Blues 11. Death of the Blue Eagle 12. Join the C.I.O 13. Old Age Pension Check 14. Sales Tax on the Women 15. Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train 16. Loveless C.C.C 17. Boys, My Money's All Gone 18. All I Got's Gone

In the original notes to this recording, Mike Seeger writes, InchThe songs on this album were recorded by commercial companies and the Library of Congress in the southeastern mountains between 1925 and 1935, and show the first attempts of the hill musicians to 'make a hit' with old traditional songs that had been in the mountains since pioneer days.Inch Album Tracks 1. Forked Dear 2. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down 3. I Truly Understand 4. Dallas Rag 5. Tom Cat Blues 6. Railroading and Gambling 7. Colored Aristocracy 8. Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea 9. East Virginia 10. Battleship Maine 11. Davy, Davy 12. Roving Gambler 13. Take a Drink on Me 14. Likes Liquor Better Than Me 15. It's a Shame to Beat Your Wife 16. Brown's Ferry Blues 17. Old Fish Song 18. Crossed Old Jordan's Stream

Dubbed a Inchtrio of insidious crusaders for 'old-timey' musicInch by Sing Out!'s Pete Welding, The New Lost City Ramblers helped bring old-time music to wider audiences through their performances as a band and through their work making field recordings of traditional musicians and resurrecting songs from old 78rpm discs. Album Tracks 1. Whoop 'Em Up Cindy 2. Mighty Mississippi 3. Louisville Burglar 4. Late Last Night When Willie Came Home 5. Hawkins Rag 6. Didn't He Ramble 7. Texas Rangers 8. Tom Dooley 9. Up Jumped the Devil 10. Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny) 11. When First Unto This Country 12. Sally Goodin' 13. Banks of the Ohio 14. George Collins 15. Everyday Dirt 16. Raging Sea