John Cohen

Mike Seeger remembered 08/26/2009

New Box Set From The New Lost City Ramblers Available August 25th 08/20/2009

A historian and folklorist in the tradition of Alan Lomax, New Yorker John Cohen went one step further, forming a revival band in the late '50s called the New Lost City Ramblers. One of the first groups to put together such an act, the Ramblers pre-dated the entire acoustic coffeehouse-return to roots boom of the early '60s. Branching out into film, Cohen made The High Lonesome Sound in 1964, a ...more