On the Great Divide

The New Lost City Ramblers were pioneers in the performance 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 music boom. Recorded before an audience in San Francisco in 1973, Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tracy Schwartz present their interpretation of traditional ballads— mountain and southern "old-timey" songs and styles found on commercial recordings of rural southern music mainly from the 1920s to the 1940s. Liner notes, written by John Cohen, provide background of each song, along with general information about the NLCR and their music.

Track Listing

101	John Brown's Dream The New Lost City Ramblers	01:37
102	Old Johnny Booker Won't Do The New Lost City Ramblers	03:04
103	Railroading on the Great Divide The New Lost City Ramblers	03:16
104	Love of Polly and Jack Monroe The New Lost City Ramblers	03:21
105	Walking Boss The New Lost City Ramblers	01:47
106	Who Killed Poor Robin The New Lost City Ramblers	03:54
107	The Old Man at the Mill The New Lost City Ramblers	02:21
108	On Our Turpentine Farm The New Lost City Ramblers	02:54
109	Little Satchel The New Lost City Ramblers	02:50
201	Dry and Dusty The New Lost City Ramblers	01:52
202	If the River Was Whiskey The New Lost City Ramblers	03:07
203	Come All You Tender Hearted The New Lost City Ramblers	03:32
204	The Time's Been Swiftly Rolling By The New Lost City Ramblers	02:46
205	There's Coming a Time The New Lost City Ramblers	03:23
206	A Night at the Country Opera The New Lost City Ramblers	03:52
207	Hawkins Rag The New Lost City Ramblers	01:55
208	La Valse Des Bambocheurs The New Lost City Ramblers	03:04
209	Cotton Eyed Joe The New Lost City Ramblers	03:23