Songs from the Depression

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In the traditional string band style, longtime Folkways recording artists The New Lost City Ramblers offer up 18 topical songs written by country singers during the dark days of the Great Depression. Many of the songs are from commercial recordings, mostly from the South, and field recordings made during the Farm Resettlement Program; they illustrate the economic and social depression that affected this area, often long after prosperity began to return to American's urban centers. Band members Tom Paley, John Cohen, and Mike Seeger contributed to the liner notes, which contain background information on the Great Depression as well as song lyrics.

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101	No Depression in Heaven	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:00
102	There'll Be No Distinction There	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:00
103	Breadline Blues	The New Lost City Ramblers	2:37
104	White House Blues	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:10
105	Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again	The New Lost City Ramblers	2:21
106	How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:35
107	Keep Moving	The New Lost City Ramblers	2:31
108	Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:14
109	Serves Them Fine	The New Lost City Ramblers	2:12
201	NRA Blues	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:02
202	Death of the Blue Eagle	The New Lost City Ramblers	2:10
203	Join the C.I.O.	The New Lost City Ramblers	2:43
204	Old Age Pension Check	The New Lost City Ramblers	2:19
205	Sales Tax on the Women	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:15
206	Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:13
207	Loveless C.C.C.	The New Lost City Ramblers	2:13
208	Boys, My Money's All Gone	The New Lost City Ramblers	1:42
209	All I Got's Gone	The New Lost City Ramblers	3:10

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