Early Years 1958-1962 CD

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COUNTRY

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Colored Aristocracy ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

2. Hopalong Peter ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

3. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

4. When First Unto This Country ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

5. Sales Tax On The Women ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

6. Rabbit Chase ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

7. Leaving Home ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

8. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

9. Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

10. I Truly Understand You Love Another Man ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

11. Old Fish Song, The ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

12. Battleship Of Maine, The ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

13. No Depression In Heaven ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

14. Dallas Rag ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

15. Bill Morgan And His Gal ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

16. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

17. Lady Of Carlisle, The ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

18. Brown's Ferry Blues ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

19. My Long Journey Home ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

20. Talking Hard Luck ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

21. Teetotals, The ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

22. Sal Got A Meatskin ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

23. Railroad Blues ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

24. On Some Foggy Mountain Top ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

25. My Sweet Farm Girl ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

26. Crow Black Chicken ~ The New Lost City Ramblers

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	New Lost City Ramblers: Mike Seeger, Tom Paley, John Cohen.
	Engineers: Moses Asch, Peter Bartok, Mike Seeger.
	Digitally remastered by Malcolm Addey, Mike Seeger and Matt Walters.
	Personnel: Tom Paley (vocals, tenor, guitar, banjo, autoharp); Mike Seeger (vocals, tenor, guitar, autoharp, mandolin, fiddle); John Cohen (vocals, bass voice, guitar, banjo); Rensel Rich (guitar); Elmer Rick (mandolin); Sanford Rich, Harry Rich (fiddle).
	Audio Remasterers: Matt Walters; Malcolm Addey; Mike Seeger.
	Liner Note Author: Jon Pankake.
	Photographer: Robert Frank .
	Moses Asch had a unique method of recording artists back in the '40s and '50s. Someone like Woody Guthrie, for instance, would just drop by Folkways when he had an idea and record. Asch might pay him five dollars for the session, and in this way he accumulated a vault full of material. Perhaps this explains the incredible fact that the New Lost City Ramblers recorded 12 albums between 1958-1962. The Early Years (1958-1962) collects 26 songs, over 70 minutes of music, from these dozen discs, creating an excellent document of the band's years with Tom Paley. Paley, John Cohen, and Mike Seeger formed the New Lost City Ramblers in 1958 with the idea of playing old-time music recorded between the late '20s and 1940. While it has often been stated that the trio intended to copy -- phrase for phrase, lick for lick -- the old 78s, Jon Pankake points out in the liner notes that this wasn't the case. Instead, the New Lost City Ramblers wanted to insert the same vim and vigor into "The Battleship of Maine" and "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" as the original players. What stands out now, some 40 years after these recordings, is the band's versatility. Whether cutting loose on an instrumental like "Colored Aristocracy" or singing tight harmony on "Brown's Ferry Blues," the three comrades form a tight unit. While the arrangements never outgrow the number of persons in the band, each player's ability to play multiple instruments lends diversity to the material. The Early Years (1958-1962) offers a very good introduction to an innovative and influential band. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.
Producer: Jon Pankake (Compilation)

Artist Overview

Once described by Bob Dylan as having old-time music "in his genetic makeup," Mike Seeger is among the most important figures in the genre born after 1930. Born to musicological parents, Mike Seeger excels at banjo, autoharp, dulcimer, guitarist, and fiddle and, from a young age, became the undeniable instrumentalist in a folk family that also included his siblings, Pete and Peggy Seeger. In 1958, Seeger formed the New Lost City Ramblers with Tom Paley and John Cohen. The preeminent string band of the folk revival, the New Lost City Ramblers revived not only the sound of old-time musicians, but their unpolished, raucous spirit as well. Seeger dabbled with bluegrass throughout his career and joined the Strange Creek Singers featuring Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard from 1968 to 1970. As a solo artist, Seeger has released countless, exhaustively authentic albums in which he approaches many forms of pre-war acoustic music as a student, professor, and virtuoso.

Compilation Appearances

	Smithsonian Folkways Children'
	Classic Bluegrass From Smithsonian
	If You Ain't Got The Do Re Mi:songs O

Technical Info

	Release Date : 12/31/1991
	Original Release Date : 1991
	Catalog ID : SFWCD 40036
	Label : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Mixed
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00093074003626

Professional Reviews

Q (10/96, p.175)
- 3 Stars - Good - "...The trio delivered misshapen harmonies on traditional hillbilly folk songs played out on guitar, banjo and violin....they had a profound influence on the NY folk scene and, inevitably, Dylan....they make an infectious and disturbing sound that's strangely alluring."

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Early Years 1958-1962 (1991)

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