This day marks the centennial of the beginning of Prohibition in the United States. After being ratified on January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect on January 17, 1920. In this album, The New Lost City Ramblers (consisting of Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Paley), perform 17 folk songs related to bootlegging, Prohibition and the effects of liquor in the style of southern mountain string bands. (Album is available on the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings website.)
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