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
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Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:54 | |
102
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31' Depression Blues | The New Lost City Ramblers | 3:17 | |
103
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That Little Lump of Coal | The New Lost City Ramblers | 3:19 | |
104
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Union Man | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:42 | |
105
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Got the Farm Land Blues | The New Lost City Ramblers | 3:10 | |
106
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We Are Up Against It Now | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:44 | |
107
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From Earth to Heaven | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:46 | |
108
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Henry Ford's Model A | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:05 | |
109
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Truck Driving Man | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:47 | |
201
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Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week | The New Lost City Ramblers | 1:58 | |
202
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Dear Okie | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:18 | |
203
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From 40 to 65 | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:54 | |
204
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Private John Q. | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:05 | |
205
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Weaver's Life | The New Lost City Ramblers | 3:07 | |
206
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The Death of Ellenton | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:14 | |
207
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Take Them For a Ride | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:53 | |
208
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Timetable Blues | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:46 | |
209
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Bye, Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:56 |