50 Years: Where Do You Come from, Where Do You Go?

The New Lost City Ramblers

Smithsonian Folkways

A 3 CD, 81 track collection. Two of the CDs are previously released compilations: The Early Years, 1958-1962 and Out Standing in Their Field: Volume II, 1963-1973. The third CD comprises more NLCR material plus field recordings of musicians who inspired the group. This CD includes 6 previously unreleased tracks.

Tracks

CD 1;

• 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

• John Brown's Dream
• Riding on the Train 45
• The Titanic
• Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind
• Cowboy Waltz
• Shut up in the Mines of Coal Creek
• Private John Q
• Old Johnny Booker Won'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 Measles, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough
• Dear Okie
• Smoketown Strut
• The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake
• Fishin' Creek Blues
• '31 Depression Blues
• Black Jack Davey
• Victory Rag
• The Little Carpenter
• On Our Turpentine Farm
• Parlez-Nous Á Boire
• Valse du Bambocheur
• Old Joe Bone

• Colored Aristocracy - The Rich Family
• Cluck Old Hen - Crockett Wade, Wade Ward And Fields Ward
• Young Emily - Dellie Norton
• Going Down the River
• Billy Grimes the Rover
• Pretty Little Miss
• Dark and Stormy Weather
• Sioux Indians
• Moonshiner
• Long Lonesome Road
• Cotton Eyed Joe
• New White House Blues
• Milwaukee Blues
• Poor Old Dirt Farmer - Tony Balfa, Tracy and Peter Schwarz
• Cady Hill - Arthur Smith and Sam & Kirk McGee
• I Belong to the Band - Gary Davis
• Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten
• I'm Leaving You - Sara Carter Bayes and Maybelle Carter
• Walking Boss - Clarence Tom Ashley
• Mother's Advice - Dock Boggs
• Hills of Mexico - Roscoe Holcomb
• Galax Rag - Kilby Snow
• Say Old Man, Can You Play a Fiddle? - Eck Robertson, Tracy Schwarz and Mike Seeger
• Awake, Awake - Dillard Chandler
• Bowling Green - Cousin Emmy and the New Lost City Ramblers
• 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

• John Cohen
• Mike Seeger
• Tom Paley
• Tracy Schwarz
• and as listed above for some tracks on CD 3

• Compilation - John Cohen, Jon Pankake, Mike Seeger, Tracy Schwarz
• Producer - John Cohen, Tracy Schwarz, Mike Seeger
• Liner Notes - Ray Allen, Jon Pankake
• Photography - Robert Frank, Chris Strachwitz
• Design - Visual Dialogue

CD 1 was originally released as a single CD;

• The Early Years: 1958-1962, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1991

• The New Lost City Ramblers, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1958
• The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 2, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1959
• Songs From The Depression, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1959
• Old-Timey Songs For Children, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1959
• Sing Songs Of The New Lost City Ramblers, Tom Paley, John Cohen, Mike Seeger, 1961
• The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 3, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1961
• The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 4, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1962
• American Moonshine And Prohibition, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1962
• The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 5, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1963

• Out Standing in Their Field, Vol. 2, 1963-1973, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1993
  

• Gone To The Country, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1963
• String Band Instrumentals, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1964
• Old Timey Music, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1964
• Rural Delivery Number One, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1964
• Remembrance of Things to Come, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1966
• Modern Times, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1968
• The New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy, The New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy, 1968
• On The Great Divide, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1973

• Cluck Old Hen - The Music of Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward, Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward, 1962
• Young Emily - Dark Holler: Old Love Songs and Ballads, Various Artists, 2005
• Going Down the River - Rural Delivery Number One, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1964
• Billy Grimes the Rover - The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 4, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1962
• Pretty Little Miss - Gone To The Country, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1963
• Dark and Stormy Weather - Remembrance of Things to Come, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1966
• Sioux Indians - Remembrance of Things to Come, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1966
• Moonshiner - American Moonshine And Prohibition, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1962
• Long Lonesome Road - Gone To The Country, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1963
• Cotton Eyed Joe - On The Great Divide, The New Lost City Ramblers, 1973
• New White House Blues - Sing Songs Of The New Lost City Ramblers, Tom Paley, John Cohen, Mike Seeger, 1961
• Milwaukee Blues - Folkways EP (Foggy Mountain Top / Talking Hard Luck / Milwaukee Blues / The Waves On The Sea), The New Lost City Ramblers, 1961
• Poor Old Dirt Farmer - Les Quatre Vieux Garçons, Dewey and Tony Balfa, and Tracy and Peter Schwarz, 1984
• Cady Hill - Look! Who's Here: Old Timers of the Grand Ole Opry, The McGee Brothers and Arthur Smith, 1964
• I Belong to the Band - If I Had My Way: The Early Home Recordings of Reverend Gary Davis, 2003
• Freight Train - Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar, Elizabeth Cotten, 1958
• I'm Leaving You - Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection (1952-1967), Various Artists, 1997
• Hills of Mexico - The Music of Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward, Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward, 1962
• Awake, Awake - Old Love Songs & Ballads from the Big Laurel, North Carolina, Various Artists, 1964
• Madeleine - Cajun Fiddle, Old and New with Dewey Balfa, 1977
• Fishing Creek Blues - Berkeley in the 1960s, Various Artists, 2008
• Sally in the Garden - Berkeley Farms: Oldtime and Country Style Music of Berkeley, Various Artists, 1972

• Colored Aristocracy - The Rich Family
• Walking Boss - Clarence Tom Ashley
• Mother's Advice - Dock Boggs
• Galax Rag - Kilby Snow
• Say Old Man, Can You Play a Fiddle? - Eck Robertson, Tracy Schwarz & Mike Seeger
• Bowling Green - Cousin Emmy with the New Lost City Ramblers