tracks

Colored Aristocracy
Hopalong Peter
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
When First Unto This Country
Sales Tax On The Women
Rabbit Chase
Leaving Home
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again
I Truly Understand You Love Another Man
The Old Fish Song
The Battleship Of Maine
No Depression In Heaven
Dallas Rag
Bill Morgan And His Gal
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
The Lady Of Carlisle
Brown's Ferry Blues
My Long Journey Home
Talking Hard Luck
The Teetotals
Sal Got A Meatskin
Railroad Blues
On Some Foggy Mountain Top
My Sweet Farm Girl
Crow Black Chicken

notes

"This compilation of 26 classic performances by the original New City Ramblers - John Cohen, Tom Paley, and Mike Seeger - Highlights the skill and variety of the 12 albums they recorded together for Folkways between 1958 and 1962. The lively and extremely musical Ramblers introduced generations to the wonders of "old time" music." - Extensive notes by Jon Pankake are enclosed.

Recorded by Moses Asch, Pater Bartok and Mike Seeger
Compiled and annotated by Jon Pankake
Anthology Supervised by Anthony Seeger and Matt Walters
Remastered by Malcolm Addey, Mike Seeger and Matt Walters
Cover photo by Robert Frank
Cover design by Carol Hardy
Special thanks to Mike Seeger

(P) (C) Smithsonian/Folkways Records
Nationally distributed by Rounder Records, One Camp Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 USA
Printed in Canada

CD Jewel Case, four page booklet ("Extensive notes by Jon Pankake" were not present

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Smithsonian Folkways
Copyright (c) – Smithsonian Folkways
Distributed By – Rounder Records

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