Essay on NLCR

Subject: Essay on NLCR
From: Stewie
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 09:24 PM

Also found via oldtimey newsgroup is a link to a beaut essay on the New Lost City Ramblers. This is a shorter version of a piece that was published originally in 2 parts in 'Old Time Herald' magazine. Enjoy!

New Lost City Ramblers

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: toadfrog
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 10:39 PM

Thanks Stewie! Good & informative essay.

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: Rolfyboy6
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 10:45 PM

Thanks, Stewie. Really good article. "I'm lost, take me back to 1939."

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 11:37 PM

Actually, it was "I am lost. Please return me to 1932" As the co-designer of that tag (reproduced in the aforementioned article) and a co-producer of the first NLCR concert(s) in NYC, I must say that I was there. I also still have the 45-minute tape entitled "Tom Tunes in Hi-Fi"

The NLCRA (New Lost City Admirers) tag was printed on oaktag, and some 2000 New Yorkers wore them before the concert with no idea what the letters stood for. On the face was a cartoon version of the old NRA blue eagle, clutching a banjo in one claw and a guitar in the other. The slogan quoted above was on the other side.

It worked, apparently--the first concert (at Mills College, in the Village) was sold out, and the more-or-less impromptu asecond concert followed on the same evening.

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: Mark Clark
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 12:29 AM

Great piece, Stewie. And Dick, thanks for sharing the extra background.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: GUEST,Allan S.
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 02:08 PM

I fondly remember those years of the Hoots at Yale with Cohen, Paley and All. Also those years that Tom was a grad. student at U-Conn. Some great music. Thanx for the article. It really brought back some wonderful memories. Allan

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: open mike
Date: 25 Sep 06 - 10:10 PM

The Web address you are looking for:
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/scu/6.4gura.html
was not found.

does any one have a copy of the article linked here?

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 12:49 AM

It's here. There's more to read at that site, The New Lost Times, "an unauthorized chronicle of the New Lost City Ramblers".

See also these related letters in the OTH site: here.

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 12:54 AM

Here's the image of the NCLRA tag.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 01:17 AM

...and I saw them in 1959 at the Gate Of Horn in Chicago. I'd never heard anything like that music done live---only a few local performers like Doc Hopkins on the WLS National Barn Dance. (WLS radio station -- AM -- stood for 'Worlds Largest Store'! --- Sears!!)

More great memories!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Essay on NLCR
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 26 Sep 06 - 01:23 AM

Oops, sorry, I mysteriously generated the same link problem. Follow the link from the New Lost Times, if the following doesn't work: but it should.

(The essay is not housed at the New Lost Times site, but at and online archive of the journal "Southern Culture".)

~ Becky in Tucson