NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS: 50 YEARS – WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? WHERE DO YOU GO? (3 CDS) SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

Collectively known as the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley were pioneers in the revival of Southern mountain music during the folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. They brought the sounds of genuine old-time string band music and early bluegrass to eager city and college audiences who had grown disillusioned with the commercial pap of the folk boom. This set features two previously released CDs of the Ramblers classic Folkways recordings: The Early Years, 1958-1962 with the original trio, and Out Standing in Their Field: Volume II, 1963-1973, with Tracy Schwarz replacing Tom Paley. A newly compiled third disc,Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go? celebrates the band’s 50th anniversary in 2009, presenting more choice Ramblers selections along with their field recordings of the traditional Southern musicians who inspired them including: Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Tom Ashley, Maybelle Carter, Elizabeth Cotten, Eck Robertson, Cousin Emmy, Reverend Gary Davis, Kilby Snow, Dillard Chandler, Dellie Norton, and the Balfa Brothers. 81 tracks, over 3 ½ hours of music, 88-page booklet over 3 CDs. Disc #3 includes 6 previously unreleased songs.

– Disc 1 –
1 Colored Aristocracy
2 Hopalong Peter
3 Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
4 When First Unto This Country
5 Sales Tax on the Women
6 Rabbit Chase
7 Leaving Home
8 How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
9 Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Back Again
10 I Truly Understand You Love Another Man
11 The Old Fish Song
12 The Battleship of Maine
13 No Depression in Heaven
14 Dallas Rag
15 Bill Morgan and His Gal
16 Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
17 The Lady of Carlisle
18 Brown’s Ferry Blues
19 My Long Journey Home
20 Talking Hard Luck
21 The Teetotals
22 Sal Got a Meatskin
23 Railroad Blues
24 On Some Foggy Mountain Top
25 My Sweet Farm Girl
26 Crow Black Chicken

– Disc 2 –
1 John Brown’s Dream
2 Riding on That Train
3 The Titanic
4 Don’t Get Trouble in Your Mind
5 Cowboy Waltz
6 Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek
7 Private John Q
8 Old Johnny Bucker Wouldn’t Do
9 I’ve Always Been a Rambler
10 Automobile Trip Through Alabama
11 Who Killed Poor Robin?
12 My Wife Died on Saturday Night
13 Little Satchel
14 Black Bottom Strut
15 The Cat’s Got the Measles, the Dog’s Got the Whooping Cough
16 Dear Okie
17 Smoketown Strut
18 The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake
19 Fishing Creek Blues
20 ’31 Depression Blues
21 Black Jack Daisy
22 Victory Rag
23 The Little Carpenter
24 On Our Turpentine Farm
25 Parlez-Nous Boire
26 Valse Du Bambocheur
27 Old Joe Bone

– Disc 3 –
1 Colored Aristocracy
2 Cluck Old Hen
3 Young Emily
4 Going Down the River
5 Billy Grimes the Rover
6 Pretty Little Miss
7 Dark and Stormy Weather
8 Sioux Indians
9 Moonshiner
10 Long Lonesome Road
11 Cotton Eyed Joe
12 New White House Blues
13 Milwaukee Blues
14 Poor Old Dirt Farmer
15 Cady Hill
16 I Belong to the Band
17 Freight Train
18 I’m Leaving You
19 Walking Boss
20 Mother’s Advice
21 Hills of Mexico
22 Galax Rag
23 Say Old Man, Can You Play a Fiddle?
24 Awake, Awake
25 Bowling Green
26 Madeleine
27 Fishing Creek Blues
28 Sally in the Garden