Surrealist Folk-Southern Style


"On our Turpentine Farm", originally done on 78 by Pigmeat Pete & Catjuice Charlie and later revived by the NLC Ramblers, gets kind of bizzarre! Imagine The Katzenjammer Kids raised in the American South with a whole slew of animals and some turpentine to experiment with. It'd make a helluva great animated cartoon and would make the PETA folks foam at the mouth.

The Ramblers also revived Red Henderson & Emmet Bankson's "Automobile Trip through Alabama", which one friend of mine once described as "Folksong as written by Captain Beefheart"

Both can be found on "The New Lost City Ramblers- Vol.2 1963-1973" on Smithsonian Folkways