Modern Times

As Southern mountaineers and farmers moved into an industrialized era of coal mines and weaving mills their rural songs evolved to express the confrontation with new modes of life and the ensuing conflicts. This album chronicles just that through songs originating in the 1920s and 1930s demonstrating a mix of styles and influences brought to older folk modes with modern subject matters (machines, cars etc.). Producer John Cohen says in the liner notes: "The study of folklore is not simply to preserve the past, but to make the present more comprehensible."

Track Listing

101	Shut up in the Mines of Coal Creek	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:54
102	'31 Depression Blues	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:17
103	That Little Lump of Coal	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:19
104	Union Man	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:42
105	Got the Farm Land Blues	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:10
106	We Are up Against It Now	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:44
107	From Earth to Heaven	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:46
108	Henry Ford's Model A	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:05
109	Truck Driving Man	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:47
201	Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week	The New Lost City Ramblers	01:58
202	Dear Okie	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:18
203	From 40 to 65	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:54
204	Private John Q.	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:05
205	Weaver's Life	The New Lost City Ramblers	03:07
206	The Death of Ellenton	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:14
207	Take Them for a Ride	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:53
208	Timetable Blues	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:46
209	Bye, Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo	The New Lost City Ramblers	02:56