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Article: 40 Years of Concert Recordings. (Off the Beaten Track). (sound recording review)
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- Sing Out!
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS 40 Years of Concert Recordings Rounder 0481
In 1958, with banjo-banging, folksinging groups finding commercial success with sanitized versions of rural songs, three young men came along traveling in the opposite direction. Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley headed back towards the 1920s and '30s, when rural music first began leaving the Southern mountains on commercial phonograph records made by country musicians. "Citybillies" themselves, the New Lost City Ramblers were dedicated to reintroducing the styles and practitioners, as well as the content, of this music to America. It is probably to the Ramblers that the revival and ...