New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy

Cousin Emmy, born Cynthia May Carver (1903-1980) in Barren County, Kentucky, brought the old time banjo music of her roots to glitzier venues, where she donned sequined dresses to create a stage presence, all the while maintaining the integrity of her clear vocals and banjo frailing. It was at such a venue, at a “Country & Western Night performance” at the Disneyland Resort in 1961, that she happened to meet the New Lost City Ramblers, who accompany her on this album.
The quintessential music of Cousin Emmy can be heard on this album in the classic bluegrass played in the style of mountainous regions, sometimes very popular in the mountains of eastern Kentucky but rarely recorded, and in Emmy’s reinterpretations that became standalone classics themselves, such as " Ruby are you mad at your man?"
Track Listing
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Old Tim Brooks | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:28 | |
102
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A Home in Old Kentucky | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:30 | |
103
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I'm Going 'Cross the Sea | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:24 | |
104
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Pretty Little Miss Out in the Garden | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 3:22 | |
105
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Little Joe | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 3:08 | |
106
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Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man? | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:57 | |
107
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Dance All Night With a Bottle in Your Hand | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:45 | |
108
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Lost John | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 3:20 | |
201
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Bowling Green | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:50 | |
202
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Cat's Got the Measles | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:26 | |
203
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Mother's Grave | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 3:04 | |
204
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Chilly Scenes of Winter | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:12 | |
205
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Graveyard | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:43 | |
206
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Johnny Booker | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:32 | |
207
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Scat Tom Kitty Puss | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:20 | |
208
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Shortening Bread | Cousin Emmy with The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:09 |