This compilation of 26 classic performances by the original New City Ramblers - John Cohen, Tom Paley, and Mike Seeger - Highlights the skill and variety of the 12 albums they recorded together for Folkways between 1958 and 1962. The lively and extremely musical Ramblers introduced generations to the wonders of "old time" music." - Extensive notes by Jon Pankake are enclosed.

• 1 Colored Aristocracy
• 2 Hopalong Peter
• 3 Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
• 4 When First Unto This Country
• 5 Sales Tax On The Women
• 6 Rabbit Chase
• 7 Leaving Home
• 8 How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
• 9 Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again
• 10 I Truly Understand You Love Another Man
• 11 The Old Fish Song
• 12 The Battleship Of Maine
• 13 No Depression In Heaven
• 14 Dallas Rag
• 15 Bill Morgan And His Gal
• 16 Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
• 17 The Lady Of Carlisle
• 18 Brown's Ferry Blues
• 19 My Long Journey Home
• 20 Talking Hard Luck
• 21 The Teetotals
• 22 Sal Got A Meatskin
• 23 Railroad Blues
• 24 On Some Foggy Mountain Top
• 25 My Sweet Farm Girl
• 26 Crow Black Chicken