Songs From the Depression

by The New Lost City Ramblers

Songs From the Depression cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: Folkways
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 49:34
  • Community rating: 3.32/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Curating a thematic collection of topical ballads and protest songs from the 1930s, the trio provides an unfiltered look into the socio-economic struggles of working-class America. The ensemble strictly adheres to authentic string-band instrumentation, rejecting the polished commercialism of contemporary folk-pop groups. It serves as a vital historical bridge connecting the rural hardships of the past with the progressive folk movement.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, acoustic, melodic, protest, folklore, alienation, political

Tracklist

  1. No Depression in Heaven (3:00)
  2. There'll Be No Distinction There (2:59)
  3. Breadline Blues (2:37)
  4. White House Blues (3:10)
  5. Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again (2:21)
  6. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (3:35)
  7. Keep Moving (2:31)
  8. Taxes on the Farmer Feeds Us All (3:14)
  9. Serves Them Fine (2:12)
  10. NRA Blues (3:02)
  11. Death of the Blue Eagle (2:10)
  12. Join the C.I.O. (2:43)
  13. Old Age Pension Check (2:19)
  14. Sales Tax on the Women (3:15)
  15. Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train (3:13)
  16. Loveless C.C.C. (2:13)
  17. Boys, My Money's All Gone (1:42)
  18. All I Got's Gone (3:10)

Credits

  • The New Lost City Ramblers - primary artist
  • Harry Gottlieb - lithography
  • A. P. Carter - written-by
  • Blind Alfred Reed - written-by
  • Bernard "Slim" Smith - written-by
  • Bill Cox - written-by
  • Fiddlin' John Carson - written-by
  • Dave & Howard - written-by

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