Songs from the Depression

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.

Track Listing

101	No Depression in Heaven The New Lost City Ramblers	03:00
102	There'll Be No Distinction There The New Lost City Ramblers	03:00
103	Breadline Blues The New Lost City Ramblers	02:37
104	White House Blues The New Lost City Ramblers	03:10
105	Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again The New Lost City Ramblers	02:21
106	How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live The New Lost City Ramblers	03:35
107	Keep Moving The New Lost City Ramblers	02:31
108	Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All The New Lost City Ramblers	03:14
109	Serves Them Fine The New Lost City Ramblers	02:12
201	NRA Blues The New Lost City Ramblers	03:02
202	Death of the Blue Eagle The New Lost City Ramblers	02:10
203	Join the C.I.O. The New Lost City Ramblers	02:43
204	Old Age Pension Check The New Lost City Ramblers	02:19
205	Sales Tax on the Women The New Lost City Ramblers	03:15
206	Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train The New Lost City Ramblers	03:13
207	Loveless C.C.C. The New Lost City Ramblers	02:13
208	Boys, My Money's All Gone The New Lost City Ramblers	01:42
209	All I Got's Gone The New Lost City Ramblers	03:10