The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33263   Message #961906
Posted By: Art Thieme
30-May-03 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: New Lost City Ramblers
Subject: RE: New Lost City Ramblers
This should be recorded---definitely !! These guys cannot be overestimated as to their total involvement in, causal influence on and seminal role in creating the HUGE present love and appreciation for what is known as old-timey music. Over the years I've gotten to know Mike and Tom. Mike Seeger's performance of the song "Peace" and Tom Paley's version of Sam McGhee's "Railroad Blues" never fail to simply knock-me-out every time I hear them. When the Ramblers came to Chicago's folk club, the Gate Of Horn, in 1959 we knew we were hearing something totally new (to us) and something important that we were going to have to get educated to if we were going to understand it. --- Like good Scotch, it was an acquired taste. I, for one, have been immensely enriched for making the effort to understand and to love this music.

Art Thieme