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
▼ CD 2: Out Standing in Their Field: Volume II, 1963-1973
#TitleRatingLength
1John Brown's Dream
Appalachian dulcimer [dulcimer]:
Mike Seeger
banjo:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
fiddle:
Tracy Schwarz
1:35
2Riding on That Train 45
banjo:
Mike Seeger
fiddle:
Tracy Schwarz
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
Tracy Schwarz
2:21
3The Titantic
autoharp and lead vocals:
Mike Seeger
guitar [lead guitar] and bass vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
guitar [second guitar] and tenor vocals:
Tracy Schwarz
3:01
4Don't Get Trouble in Your Mind
banjo:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
fiddle and guitar:
Tracy Schwarz
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
2:18
5Cowboy Waltz
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
guitar:
Tracy Schwarz
mandolin:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
1:52
6Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek
vocals:
Tracy Schwarz
2:50
7Private John Q
banjo and tenor vocals:
Tracy Schwarz
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
guitar [lead guitar], harmonica [mouth harp] and lead vocals:
Mike Seeger
2:03
8Old Johnny Bucker Wouldn't Do
fiddle:
Tracy Schwarz and Mike Seeger
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
3:03
9I've Always Been a Rambler
banjo:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
fiddle:
Tracy Schwarz
guitar:
Mike Seeger
vocals:
Tracy Schwarz
3:19
10Automobile Trip Through Alabama
banjo:
Mike Seeger
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
3:18
11Who Killed Poor Robin?
banjo:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
fiddle:
Tracy Schwarz
guitar and harmonica [mouth harp]:
Mike Seeger
vocals:
Mike Seeger
3:54
12My Wife Died on Saturday Night
banjo:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
guitar:
Tracy Schwarz
harmonica [mouth harp]:
Mike Seeger
vocals:
Mike Seeger
2:21
13Little Satchel
banjo [clawhammer banjo]:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
banjo [three-finger banjo]:
Tracy Schwarz
guitar:
Mike Seeger
vocals:
Tracy Schwarz
2:49
14Black Bottom Strut
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
mandolin:
Mike Seeger
spoons:
Tracy Schwarz
2:11
15The Cat's Got the Measles, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough
fiddle:
Tracy Schwarz
guitar:
Mike Seeger
vocals:
Mike Seeger
2:57
16Dear Okie
banjo:
Mike Seeger
fiddle:
Tracy Schwarz
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
2:16
17Smoketown Strut
guitar:
Mike Seeger
2:19
18The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake
fiddle and tenor vocals:
Tracy Schwarz
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
mandolin and lead vocals:
Mike Seeger
recording of:
The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake
composer:
Albert Price
3:32
19Fishing Creek Blues
banjo:
Mike Seeger
fiddle:
Tracy Schwarz
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
2:04
20'31 Depression Blues
banjo:
Mike Seeger
guitar:
Tracy Schwarz
vocals:
Mike Seeger
3:16
21Black Jack Daisy
banjo:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
2:33
22Victory Rag
autoharp:
Mike Seeger
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
2:05
23The Little Carpenter
banjo:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
fiddle:
Mike Seeger
vocals:
Mike Seeger
2:52
24On Our Turpentine Farm
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019) and Tracy Schwarz
mandolin and tenor vocals:
Mike Seeger
lead vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
other vocals [vocal interjections]:
Tracy Schwarz
2:53
25Parlez-nous à Boire
fiddle [lead fiddle]:
Mike Seeger
fiddle [second fiddle]:
Tracy Schwarz
triangle:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
Mike Seeger
recording of:
Parlez-nous à Boire
lyricist and composer:
Dewey Balfa
3:37
26Valse du Bambocheur
fiddle [lead fiddle]:
Tracy Schwarz
fiddle [second fiddle]:
Mike Seeger
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
Tracy Schwarz
recording of:
Valse du Bambocheur
lyricist and composer:
Dewey Balfa
3:02
27Old Joe Bone
fiddle:
Tracy Schwarz and Mike Seeger
guitar:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
vocals:
John Cohen (folk musician and musicologist, 1932-2019)
1:59
▶ 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]