50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?
3-CD set $40
Smithsonian Folkways, 2009.
Two previously released CDs compiled from the Ramblers classic early Folkways recordings, plus a new compilation of Ramblers selections along with their field recordings of the traditional Southern musicians who inspired them, including Dock Boggs, Roscoe Holcomb, Tom Ashley, Maybelle Carter, and the Balfa Brothers. Each CD is accompanied by extensive notes.
CD #1. The New Lost City Ramblers, 1958-1962: the Early Years. Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley.
- 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
CD #2. The New Lost City Ramblers, 1963-1973, Out Standing in Their Field. Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tracy Schwarz
- John Brown's Dream
- Riding on That Train
- The Titanic
- Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind
- Cowboy Waltz
- Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek
- Private John Q
- Old Johnny Bucker Wouldn't Do
- I've Always Been a Rambler
- Automobile Trip Through Alabama
- Who Killed Poor Robin?
- My Wife Died on Saturday Night
- Little Satchel
- Black Bottom Strut
- The Cat's Got the Measels, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough
- Dear Okie
- Smoketown Strut
- The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake
- Fishing Creek Blues
- '31 Depression Blues
- Black Jack Daisy
- Victory Rag
- The Little Carpenter
- On Our Turpentine Farm
- Parlez-Nous à Boire
- Valse du Bambocheur
- Old Joe Bone
CD #3 The New Lost City Ramblers, Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?
- Colored Aristocracy - The Rich Family (previously unreleased)
- Cluck Old Hen - Wade, Crockett, and Fields Ward
- Young Emily - Dellie Norton
- Going Down the River - The New Lost City Ramblers
- Billy Grimes the Rover - The New Lost City Ramblers
- Pretty Little Miss - The New Lost City Ramblers
- Dark & Stormy Weather - The New Lost City Ramblers
- Sioux Indians - The New Lost City Ramblers
- Moonshiner - The New Lost City Ramblers
- Long Lonesome Road - The New Lost City Ramblers
- Cotton Eyed Joe - The New Lost City Ramblers
- New White House Blues - The New Lost City Ramblers
- Milwaukee Blues - The New Lost City Ramblers
- Poor Old Dirt Farmer - Tony Balfa, Tracy and Peter Schwarz
- Cady Hill - Arthur Smith & Sam and Kirk McGee
- I Belong to the Band - Reverend Gary Davis
- Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten
- I'm Leaving You - Sara Carter Bayes and Maybelle Carter
- Walking Boss - Clarence Tom Ashley (previously unreleased)
- Mother's Advice - Dock Boggs (previously unreleased)
- Hills of Mexico - Roscoe Holcomb
- Galax Rag - Kilby Snow (previously unreleased)
- Say Old Man, Can You Play a Fiddle? - Eck Robertson, Tracy Schwarz, & Mike Seeger (previously unreleased)
- Awake, Awake - Dillard Chandler
- Bowling Green - Cynthia May "Cousin Emmy" Carver with the New Lost City Ramblers (previously unreleased)
- Madeleine - Dewey & Rodney Balfa, Allie Young, & Weston Bergeau
- Fishing Creek Blues - Sue Draheim, Mack Benford, Eric Thompson, Jody Stecher, Hank Bradley, Will Spires, Kenny Hall, Holly Tannen, & Larry Hanks
- Sally In the Garden - New Tranquility String Band & friends
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