The New Lost City Ramblers portrait

The New Lost City Ramblers

The New Lost City Ramblers is a Singer/Songwriter group from United States, formed on January 1, 1958.

The New Lost City Ramblers were a contemporary old-time string band that formed in New York City in 1958 during the Folk Revival. The founding members of the Ramblers, or NLCR, were Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933 – August 7, 2009), John Cohen (August 2, 1932 - September 16, 2019), and Tom Paley (March 19, 1928 – September 30, 2017) . Tom Paley later left the group and was replaced by Tracy Schwarz. The New Lost City Ramblers not only directly participated in the old-time music revival .