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New Lost City Ramblers
40 Years of Concert Recordings
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop

Track Listings (25) - Disc #1
1. Soldier's Joy
2. Down in the Willow
3. Brown's Ferry Blues - The New Lost City Ramblers, Traditional
4. Too Tight Rag
5. Little Birdie - The New Lost City Ramblers, Traditional
6. Darling Corey
7. The Democratic Donkey (Is in His Stall Again)
8. Poor Ellen Smith
9. On Some Foggy Mountain Top - The New Lost City Ramblers, Carter, A.P.
10. Cackling Hen
11. The Battleship of Maine - The New Lost City Ramblers, Traditional
12. Worried Man Blues - The New Lost City Ramblers, Carter, A.P.
13. Unquiet Blues
14. Lady of Carlisle
15. Groundhog
16. Orange Blossom Special [#] - The New Lost City Ramblers, Rouse, Ervin T.
17. East Virginia Blues [#] - The New Lost City Ramblers, Traditional
18. Country Blues
19. Little Maggie
20. The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake - The New Lost City Ramblers, Price, Albert
21. Keep Moving
22. Fortune [#]
23. She Tickles Me
24. The Arkansas Traveller - The New Lost City Ramblers, Traditional
25. Saddle Up the Grey
Track Listings (23) - Disc #2
1. Sally Goodin
2. The Old Bell Cow - The New Lost City Ramblers, Cohen, John
3. It's Hard to Leave You, Sweet Love [Stereo]
4. Dark Holler Blues [Stereo]
5. Locks and Bolts [Stereo]
6. Wildwood Weed [Stereo] - The New Lost City Ramblers, Bowen, Don
7. Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues [Stereo]
8. Madeleine [Stereo]
9. Sourwood Mountain [#]
10. Black Bottom Strut
11. Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel
12. The Old Man at the Mill [#]
13. Tom Sherman's Barroom [#]
14. Turkey in the Straw (Introduction) - The New Lost City Ramblers, Traditional
15. Turkey in the Straw [#] - The New Lost City Ramblers, Traditional
16. Old Joe Clark [Stereo][#]
17. Rabbit Chase [#] - The New Lost City Ramblers, Traditional
18. Poor Old Dirt Farmer - The New Lost City Ramblers, Schwarz, Tracy
19. Tennessee Blues [Stereo][#] - The New Lost City Ramblers, Moore, Bill [Songwr
20. Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar [#] - The New Lost City Ramblers, Delmore, Alton
21. I've Always Been a Rambler [#]
22. Baltimore Fire [#] - The New Lost City Ramblers, Traditional
23. Three Men Went A-Hunting [#]

CD Details

All Artists: New Lost City Ramblers
Title: 40 Years of Concert Recordings
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rounder Select
Release Date: 6/12/2001
Genres: Country, Folk, Pop
Styles: Bluegrass, Classic Country, Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 682161048123

Synopsis

Amazon.com

On their 20 or so studio albums, the New Lost City Ramblers come across as musical antiquarians who are as concerned with the source of an old ballad or the tuning of a banjo as they are with the performance of the song in question. But on 40 Years of Concert Recordings they drop the scholarly pose and revel in the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of early 20th-century rural string-band music. The 48 songs on this two-CD set include fiddle tunes, murder ballads, train songs, political songs, and love songs, interspersed with erudite, but always witty, commentary from the band. The songs may be spooky, as on Tracy Schwarz's chilling a cappella rendition of "The Unquiet Grave," or silly, such as "Too Tight Rag," which features John Cohen and Tom Paley in a kazoo duet. They may even be recently composed, like Mike Seeger's version of the Jim Stafford hit "Wildwood Weed," but the performances are always inspired. If you want to learn the history of these old-time classics, you should track down some of the Ramblers' studio recordings and pore through the liner notes. But if you want to hear this music the way it was meant to be heard, in front of a live audience played by enthusiastic musicians, then you should give 40 Years of Concert Recordings a listen. --Michael Simmons

CD Reviews

Nice Update

James E. Bagley | Sanatoga, PA USA | 02/13/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"True keepers of the flame, the New Lost City Ramblers have staunchly preserved rural 1920s-30s music, especially the primitive southern string band sound eventually dubbed old-timey to distinguish it from the bluegrass it fathered. Mike Seeger (half-brother of Pete), Tom Paley and documentary filmmaker John Cohen formed the trio in 1958, with Cajun enthusiast Tracy Schwarz replacing Paley in 1962. Though they seldom perform together now, this two-CD, 48-song set expands and updates the trio's 1988 20 Years/Concert Performances on Flying Fish, with the thorough discographical source notations of old 78s that marked the trio's Folkways LPs. Whereas The Holy Modal Rounders treated old-timey styles with levity, The NLCR have ardently repeated the original forms. Still, these are no frozen, sterile museum pieces. Some songs are funny - take "She Tickles Me" and, from a scared Spanish-American War grunt, "Battleship Of Maine." Comparing Ian & Sylvia's "Lady Of Carlisle" and the McGarrigles'
"Baltimore Fire" (both learned from the Ramblers) with the NLCR's versions shows they aren't always the greatest vocalists, but with their fiddle, banjo, autoharp and tiny, twangy jew's harp, they've been vital links in a chain leading from The Carter Family and Charlie Poole down to Jerry Garcia and now The Liva-Snaps."

Hear Them Live!

Tribe | Toledo, Ohio United States | 08/15/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"If you're familiar with the NLCR only through their studio recordings, you're in for a real treat with this compilation. If you've never given the Ramblers a chance, this is as good a place as any to start. This compliation is a recap of their long career (I'd dare say that the Ramblers may be one of the longest running musical acts around), and a very good one at that. What struck me about this album is how they've changed over the decades and still have managed to keep their old-time music fresh, faithful to tradition, yet open to innovation. A nice addition to anyone's old-timey music collection."