New Lost City Ramblers
9th Annual Americana Album Nominee
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Genre: Americana
Smithsonian Folkways
www.folkways.si.edu
HOMEBASE/COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
ALBUM NOMINATED: 50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?
WHERE WAS ALBUM RECORDED? Various
WHERE IS YOUR MUSIC AVAILABLE? Folkways.si.edu
WHICH GENRES BEST DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC? Old Time traditional “Folk & Country”
IS THERE A THEME TO THE ALBUM? A summary of fifty years of recording & performing, including influences on our music, and field recordings of musicians we have documented.
DID FANS HELP FUND THIS PROJECT? By purchasing our records.
DESCRIBE YOUR AUDIENCE: Young people fifty years later, and newcomers along the way.
WHAT MAKES YOUR FANS UNIQUE? They are interested in Old Time Country music, and most of them are musicians.
WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE PLACES TO PLAY? Colleges, clubs and concert halls
WHAT HAS BEEN THE BAND’S MOST MEMORABLE ACHIEVEMENT TO DATE? Existing 50 years without a hit record. Also, our 1966 tour of Europe was way ahead of its time.
WHAT’S IN THE WORKS FOR 2010? Playing music individually
FINISH THIS SENTENCE: THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IS…..Not designed for our music.
WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF SUCCESS? survival and getting the music out there.
WHAT’S ON YOUR IPOD THAT WOULD SURPRISE YOUR FANS? I don’t have an iPod
NAME SOME ARTISTS YOU ARE CHAMPIONING: Carter Family, Uncle Dave Macon, Clarence Ashley, Dewey Balfa, Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, the Library of Congress field recordings & Bob Dylan.