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.

Tracklist:

No Depression In Heaven
There'll Be No Distinction There
Breadline Blues
White House Blues
Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
Keep Moving
Taxes On The Farmer Feeds Us All
Serves Them Fine
NRA Blues
Death Of The Blue Eagle
Join The C.I.O.
Old Age Pension Check
Sales Tax On The Women
Wreck Of The Tennessee Gravy Train
Loveless C.C.C.
Boys, My Money's All Gone
All I Got's Gone

UPC: 093070526426
Label: Folkways Records
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD

The New Lost City Ramblers - Songs from the Depression (CD)