The lively, good humored Ramblers introduced generations to old-time string band music and influenced artists as diverse as Doc Watson and the Holy Modal Rounders. This collection of 26 songs and instrumentals highlights the virtuosity and splendid variety of 12 Folkways albums recorded by the original group (John Cohen, Tom Paley, and Mike Seeger). “…[A]musing in spots, touching in others and captivating all the way through…” — The Fresno Bee
Colored Aristocracy
Hopalong Peter
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
When First Unto This Country
Sales Tax on Women
Rabbit Chase
Leaving Home
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Back Again
I Truly Understand You Love Another Man
The Old Fish Song
The Battleship of Maine
No Depression in Heaven
Dallas Rag
Bill Morgan and His Gal
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
Lady of Carlisle
Brown’s Ferry Blues
My Long Journey Home
Talking Hard Luck
The Teetotals
Sal Got a Meatskin
Railroad Blues
On Some Foggy Mountain Top
My Sweet Farm Girl
Crow Black Chicken