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New Lost City Ramblers (a parody of the National Recovery Administration logo)
New Lost City Ramblers (a parody of the National Recovery Administration logo)

The New Lost City Ramblers is a contemporary old-time string band that formed in New York City in 1958 during the Folk Revival. National Recovery Administration (NRA created in the United States of America under the 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act, was one of the New Deal Old-time music is a form of North American Folk music, with roots in the Folk musics of many countries including England, Scotland, This article is about the style of old-time American music The term string band also referred to the ensembles now known as Scratch bands part of the Music of the The City of New York A roots revival ( folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors The founding members of the Ramblers, or NLCR, are Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley. Mike Seeger (b August 15 1933 in New York New York) is an American folk musician and folklorist John Cohen (born Queens New York 1932 is a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers as well as a photographer and filmmaker of note Tom Paley (born 19th March 1928 is an American Banjo -player Tom Paley was born and raised in New York City where he first fell in love with Old-time music. Tom Paley later left the group and was replaced by Tracy Schwarz. Tom Paley (born 19th March 1928 is an American Banjo -player Tom Paley was born and raised in New York City where he first fell in love with Old-time music. Ginny Hawker and Tracy Schwarz are an American Folk music duo known for performing traditional music from the early American canon of bluegrass, gospel

The New Lost City Ramblers not only directly participated in the old-time music revival, but has continued to directly influence countless musicians who have followed. Old-time music is a form of North American Folk music, with roots in the Folk musics of many countries including England, Scotland, Indeed, except for The Kingston Trio, the NLCR may well be the longest-running popular music group still performing, albeit irregularly. The Kingston Trio is an American folk and Pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to early 1960s

The Ramblers distinguished themselves by focusing on the traditional playing styles they heard on old 78rpm records of musicians recorded during the 1920s and 1930s, many of whom would later appear on the Anthology of American Folk Music. A gramophone The Anthology of American Folk Music is a 1952 six-album compilation of eighty-four American folk recordings from 1927 to 1932 The NLCR refused to "sanitize" these southern sounds as did other folk groups of the time, such as the Weavers or Kingston Trio. Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous The Weavers were an influential American Folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. Instead, the Ramblers have always strived for an authentic sound. However, the Ramblers did not merely copy the old recordings that inspired them. Rather, they would use the various old-time styles they encountered while at the same time not becoming slaves to imitation. Old-time music is a form of North American Folk music, with roots in the Folk musics of many countries including England, Scotland,
On "Songs From the Depression," they performed a variety of political contemporary popular songs from the New Deal days, all but one of them taken from commercially issued 78s, and that one is "Keep Moving," identified in the album notes only as "from Tony Schwartz' collection — singer unidentified" [1] when actually it is by Agnes "Sis" Cunningham, the full title being "How Can You Keep On Moving (Unless You Migrate Too). Agnes ("Sis" Cunningham ( February 19, 1909, Watonga Oklahoma &ndash June 27, 2004) was an American Musician " The omission later caused Ry Cooder, who listened to the Ramblers album, to record the song as Traditional on the first edition of his "Into the Purple Valley", an omission he gladly corrected when informed of it. Ryland "Ry" Peter Cooder (born 15 March 1947, in Los Angeles, California) is an American Guitarist, Singer, and Cooder also covered another song from the same NLCR album, which he may have heard on a poorly labeled cassette copy: "Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All" which the NLCR credit to Fiddling John Carson but which the Cooder notes still list as "traditional. " [2]

The New Lost City Ramblers' extensive recordings for the Folkways label, after the death of Moe Asch, became part of the Smithsonian Institution, which reissues Folkways titles on CD. Moses ("Moe" Asch (born December 2, 1905, Warsaw; died October 19, 1986, New York City) was the founder The Smithsonian Institution (smɪθsoʊnɪən is an educational and research institute and associated Museum complex administered and funded by the Government of

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