50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?

~ Release by The New Lost City Ramblers (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

Each CD has a booklet with release credits. The main case also has credits.

Annotation last modified on 2018-09-04 05:42 UTC.

Tracklist

▼ CD 1: The Early Years: Volume I, 1958-1962
#TitleRatingLength
1Colored Aristocracy
banjo:
Tom Paley
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
recording of:
Colored Aristocracy
composer:
Sanford Rich
2:08
2Hopalong Peter
banjo:
Tom Paley
fiddle, mandolin and lead vocals:
Mike Seeger
bass vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
Tom Paley
2:08
3Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
banjo and lead vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
guitar and tenor vocals:
Tom Paley
recording of:
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 4854)
2:30
4When First Unto This Country
autoharp:
Mike Seeger
banjo:
Tom Paley
vocals:
Mike Seeger
recording of:
When First Unto This Country (I courted a fair maiden)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:48
5Sales Tax on the Women
guitar and tenor vocals:
Mike Seeger
Hawaiian guitar and lead vocals:
Tom Paley
3:17
6Rabbit Chase
instruments and vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
2:33
7Leaving Home
banjo:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
guitar:
Tom Paley
vocals:
Tom Paley
3:08
8How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
banjo:
Tom Paley
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
Mike Seeger
recording of:
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
lyricist and composer:
Blind Alfred Reed (US folk musician)
3:37
9Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again
guitar and lead vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
guitar [lead guitar]:
Tom Paley
vocals:
Tom Paley
2:22
10I Truly Understand You Love Another Man
banjo and lead vocals:
Tom Paley
bass vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
Mike Seeger
recording of:
I Truly Understand, You Love Another Man
lyricist and composer:
George Roark
2:32
11The Old Fish Song
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
vocals:
Mike Seeger
4:55
12The Battleship of Maine
banjo and lead vocals:
Tom Paley
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
3:08
13No Depression in Heaven
autoharp and lead vocals:
Mike Seeger
guitar and tenor vocals:
Tom Paley
2:59
14Dallas Rag
banjo:
Tom Paley
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
mandolin:
Mike Seeger
2:06
15Bill Morgan and His Gal
banjo and tenor vocals:
Tom Paley
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
guitar and lead vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
2:58
16Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
banjo and lead vocals:
Tom Paley
fiddle and tenor vocals:
Mike Seeger
recording of:
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 5720)
2:33
17The Lady of Carlisle
guitar:
Mike Seeger
vocals:
Mike Seeger
recording of:
The Lady of Carlisle
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 396)
3:35
18Brown's Ferry Blues
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
guitar [lead guitar]:
Tom Paley
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019) and Tom Paley
recording of:
Brown’s Ferry Blues
writer:
Alton Delmore
2:50
19My Long Journey Home
guitar and lead vocals:
Tom Paley
mandolin and tenor vocals:
Mike Seeger
2:39
20Talking Hard Luck
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
2:43
21The Teetotals
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019), Tom Paley and Mike Seeger
1:03
22Sal Got a Meatskin
guitar and lead vocals:
Tom Paley
guitar [(capoed) guitar on first and third breaks] and tenor vocals:
Mike Seeger
3:27
23Railroad Blues
guitar:
Tom Paley
vocals:
Tom Paley
2:44
24On Some Foggy Mountain Top
guitar and bass vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
guitar [lead guitar] and tenor vocals:
Tom Paley
mandolin and lead vocals:
Mike Seeger
recording of:
Foggy Mountain Top
lyricist and composer:
A.P. Carter
2:28
25My Sweet Farm Girl
autoharp:
Tom Paley
banjo and tenor vocals:
Mike Seeger
guitar and lead vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
2:25
26Crow Black Chicken
banjo and background vocals [vocal refrain]:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
fiddle and other vocals [falsetto vocal]:
Mike Seeger
guitar and lead vocals:
Tom Paley
2:36
▶ CD 2: Out Standing in Their Field: Volume II, 1963-1973
▶ CD 3: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?

Credits

Release

art direction:Visual Dialogue (design agency)
photography:Robert Frank (photographer)
Chris Strachwitz
liner notes:Ray Allen (music historian)
Jon Pankake (performed with Garrison Keillor in early Prairie Home Companion days) (in 1991)
engineer and mastering:Pete Reiniger
co-producer:John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
Tracy Schwarz
Mike Seeger
executive producer:Daniel E. Sheehy (Smithsonian Folkways) (in 2009)
D.A. Sonneborn (Smithsonian Folkways) (in 2009)
recording engineer:Moses Asch
Peter Bartok
Mike Seeger
Chris Strachwitz
remastering:Henk Kooistra (dutch audio engineer)
Malcolm Addey (in 1991)
Mike Seeger (in 1991)
Matt Walters (Smithsonian Folkways affiliate) (in 1991)
compiler:Jon Pankake (performed with Garrison Keillor in early Prairie Home Companion days) (in 1991)
design:Carol Hardy (designer) (in 1991)
Visual Dialogue (design agency) (in 2009)
remastered at:Soundmirror (aka Soundmirror, Inc.) in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
purchase for mail-order:https://folkways.si.edu/the-new-lost-city-ramblers/50-years-where-do-you-come-from-where-do-you-go/american-folk-old-time/music/album/smithsonian [info]