tracks

Old Tim Brooks
A Home In Old Kentucky
I'm Going 'Cross The Sea
Pretty Little Miss Out In The Garden
Little Joe
Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man?
Dance All Night With A Bottle In Your Hand
Lost John
Bowling Green
Cat's Got The Measles
Mother's Grave
Chilly Scenes Of Winter
Graveyard
Johnny Booker
Scat Tom Kitty Puss
Shortening Bread

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Cousin Emmy and the New Lost City Ramblers FW31015

Cousin Emmy, born Cynthia May Carver (1903-1980) in Barren County, Kentucky, brought the old time banjo music of her roots to glitzier venues, where she donned sequined dresses to create a stage presence, all the while maintaining the integrity of her clear vocals and banjo frailing. It was at such a venue, at a “Country & Western Night performance” at the Disneyland Resort in 1961, that she happened to meet the New Lost City Ramblers, who accompany her on this album.

The quintessential music of Cousin Emmy can be heard on this album in the classic bluegrass played in the style of mountainous regions, sometimes very popular in the mountains of eastern Kentucky but rarely recorded, and in Emmy’s reinterpretations that became standalone classics themselves, such as " Ruby are you mad at your man?"

COUNTRY(S) United States
CULTURE GROUP(S) Anglo-American
KEYWORD(S) Bluegrass music; Folk songs--United States; Folksong revival; String band
INSTRUMENT(S) Banjo; Bass; Guitar; Mandolin
LANGUAGE(S) English

YEAR OF RECORDING 1968
RECORD LABEL Folkways Records
SOURCE ARCHIVE Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
CREDITS Produced by Mike Seeger ; Produced by Peter Bartok ; Artist Cousin Emmy ; Artist New Lost City Ramblers

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