Lovers of traditional American folk music owe a debt of gratitude to The New
Lost City Ramblers, a folk group formed by Mike Seeger, John Cohen and Tom Paley
in 1958. The band based their style almost entirely on old 78rpm pre-war
recordings of American folk songs and were obsessional about playing music which
was true to its origins rather than playing updated versions of old songs
sanitised for modern audiences.
Their second album 'Songs from the Depression' (1959) is a seminal work which
features many political songs from the Great Depression and each track with the
excep...