Remembrance of Things to Come

The New Lost City Ramblers, originally composed of Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley (Tracy Schwarz replaced Tom Paley in 1962), were pioneers in the revival of southern mountain music during the folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. They brought the sounds of genuine old-time string band music and early bluegrass to eager city and college audiences who had grown disillusioned with the commercial fare of the folk boom. In this 1966 recording (originally released in 1973), the New Lost City Ramblers present a mix of the types and styles of music for which they had become famous—southern versions of ancient ballads and traditional southern song, and "old-timey" songs and styles found on commercial recordings of rural southern music mainly from the 1920s and 1930s. The liner notes, written by Seeger, Schwarz, and Cohen, discuss the background of each song, including sources and the group’s performance approach.

Track Listing

101	Soldier's Joy	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:12
102	The Titanic	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:02
103	Single Girl	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:00
104	Lord Bateman	The New Lost City Ramblers	05:34
105	I'm Lonesome	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:23
106	He Is Coming to Us Dead	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:17
107	Cat's Got the Measles and the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:58
108	Rock About My Saro Jane	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:14
109	Black Bottom Strut	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:14
201	New Lost Hometown Blues	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:15
202	Dark and Stormy Weather	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:25
203	Black Jack Daisy	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:36
204	Never Be as Fast as I Have Been	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:07
205	Little Ball of Yarn	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:23
206	The Sioux Indians	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:04
207	Parlez-Nous a Boire	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:40
208	The Arkansas Sheik	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:58
209	Give the Fiddler a Dram	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:06