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String Band Instrumentals

The New Lost City Ramblers

Initial release : 1964

Folkways

Tracks

  • Saddle Up The Grey
  • Greenback Dollar
  • Victory Rag
  • Soldier's Joy
  • Blackeyed Susie
  • My Wife Died On Saturday Night
  • John Brown's Dream
  • Jenny On The Railroad
  • Take Me Back To Georgia
  • Chinese Breakdown
  • Yellow Rose Of Texas
  • Cowboy Waltz
  • Stone's Rag
  • Smoketown Strut
  • Jackson Stomp
  • Going To Jail
  • Bill Cheatham
  • Shout Lulu
  • Weary Lonesome Blues
  • New Lost Train Blues
  • New Camptown Races
Musicians

  • John Cohen - guitar, banjo, mandolin
  • Tracy Schwarz - guitar, fiddle
  • Mike Seeger - guitar, banjo, fiddle, autoharp, mouth harp
Credits

  • Design and photo - John Cohen
Notes

The sleeve notes provide information about the source or inspiration behind each song on the LP. The sources listed for each song are:

  • Saddle Up The Grey - Carter Brothers and Son, Okeh 45202
  • Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band, Columbia 15300
  • Victory Rag - Maybelle Carter
  • Soldier's Joy - Hobart Smith
  • Blackeyed Susie - J.P. Nestor, Vi 21070A / Whitter's Virginia Breakdowners Okeh 40320
  • My Wife Died On Saturday Night - Dr. Humphrey Bate and his Possum Hunters, Bruns 271
  • John Brown's Dream - The Southern Broadcasters. Silvertone S183B
  • Jenny On The Railroad - Carter Brothers and Son, Voc 5297
  • Take Me Back To Georgia - Lowe Stokes and Mike Whitten, Col 15486
  • Chinese Breakdown - Junie Scruggs
  • Yellow Rose Of Texas - Ben Jarrell accompanied by DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters, Gennett 6143
  • Cowboy Waltz - Woody Guthrie & Friends, Folkways FP 10
  • Stone's Rag - style from Jimmie Rodgers, playing from Gwen Foster, Walt Davis, Clarence Green, Will Abernathy and Thomas C. Ashley on Over At Tom's House, ConQ 81038
  • Smoketown Strut - Sylvester Weaver, Okeh 8152-A
  • Jackson Stomp - The Mississippi Mud Steppers, Okeh 45504
  • Going To Jail - Buddy Young's Kentuckians, Superior 2519
  • Bill Cheatham - from Red headed Fiddler, Bruns 470 and Eck Robertson's Brilliancy Medley, Victor 40298A
  • Shout Lulu - Rufus Crisp, Woody Watchel, Roscoe Holcomb and Pete Steele
  • Lonesome Weary Blues - Roy Harvey and Leonard Copeland, Col 15582
  • New Lost Train Blues - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Bb B-6424
  • New Camptown Races - Frank Wakefield, Carace Hutchins and Marvin Cobb
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