Pete Seeger - American Favorite Ballads (2009)
Artist: Pete Seeger
Title: American Favorite Ballads
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Smithsonian Folkways – SFW CD 40155
Genre: Folk, Americana, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue, log)
Total Time: 06:06:15
Total Size: 841 MB / 1.21 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: American Favorite Ballads
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Smithsonian Folkways – SFW CD 40155
Genre: Folk, Americana, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue, log)
Total Time: 06:06:15
Total Size: 841 MB / 1.21 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Disc 1: Volume 1 (01:13:24)
1. John Henry (04:31)
2. Shenandoah (01:50)
3. Blue‐Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn) (02:35)
4. Black Girl (02:34)
5. Skip to My Lou (03:12)
6. The Big Rock Candy Mountain (03:09)
7. Clementine (03:06)
8. Yankee Doodle (01:41)
9. Home on the Range (01:52)
10. John Brown’s Body (03:00)
11. Goodnight, Irene (03:44)
12. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (02:37)
13. Oh, Susanna (01:18)
14. Wayfaring Stranger (01:16)
15. Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep (02:31)
16. Down in the Valley (03:46)
17. The Wabash Cannonball (03:05)
18. On Top of Old Smoky (02:19)
19. Frankie and Jonny (04:28)
20. I Ride an Old Paint (03:25)
21. The Wreck of the Railroad (01:53)
22. Wagoner’s Lad (01:25)
23. Old Dan Tucker (02:14)
24. I’ve Been Working on the Railroad (01:27)
25. Cielito lindo (02:35)
26. So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust) (03:22)
27. America the Beautiful (01:39)
28. This Land Is Your Land (02:50)
Disc 2: Volume 2 (01:14:54)
1. Barbara Allen (04:33)
2. Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn (01:15)
3. Midnight Special (02:54)
4. The House of the Rising Sun (02:36)
5. Careless Love (03:08)
6. Oh What a Beautiful City (02:58)
7. Poor Boy (02:19)
8. Sally Ann (01:33)
9. The Riddle Song (02:28)
10. Go Tell Aunt Rhody (03:17)
11. The Water Is Wide (03:36)
12. The Fox (01:49)
13. The Keeper and the Doe (02:14)
14. Pretty Polly (03:36)
15. Jesse James (04:31)
16. Stagolee (02:15)
17. Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair (02:31)
18. Camptown Races (01:33)
19. Blow the Man Down (02:06)
20. Froggie Went a Courting (04:28)
21. I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song) (03:57)
22. Putting on the Style (02:49)
23. The Farmer’s Curst Wife (02:52)
24. Hard Travelling (02:47)
25. Alabama Bound (02:22)
26. Wimiweh (01:50)
27. Dink’s Song (02:37)
Disc 3: Volume 3 (01:14:23)
1. Gypsy Davy (05:00)
2. Deep Blue Sea (02:14)
3. New River Train (02:59)
4. St. James Hospital (02:56)
5. E‐ri‐e Canal (03:21)
6. St. Louis Blues (02:23)
7. Boll Weevil (03:52)
8. The Girl I Left Behind (01:11)
9. When I First Came to This Land (02:41)
10. The Titanic (03:43)
11. El‐a‐noy (01:49)
12. Lady of Carlysle (03:19)
13. My Good Man (02:39)
14. Golden Vanity (03:51)
15. Ain’t It a Shame (01:48)
16. Swanee River (03:02)
17. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (04:32)
18. The Boys From County Mayo (02:24)
19. No Irish Need Apply (01:55)
20. Paddy Works on the Railroad (02:26)
21. Arkansas Traveler (02:41)
22. When I Was Single (01:17)
23. Wondrous Love (01:38)
24. Ground Hog (03:49)
25. Old Blue (02:22)
26. She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain (01:57)
27. Erie Canal (02:34)
Disc 4: Volume 4 (01:11:42)
1. Banks of the Ohio (03:30)
2. You Are My Sunshine (01:46)
3. Hallelujah, I’m a Bum (01:40)
4. The Foggy Dew (01:59)
5. Molly Malone (02:21)
6. Old Maid’s Song (01:44)
7. Oh, How He Lied (01:42)
8. Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow (02:44)
9. Leatherwing Bat (03:10)
10. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (02:26)
11. Farther Along (02:33)
12. Go Down Moses (02:56)
13. All My Trials (03:08)
14. Monsieur Banjo (02:11)
15. No More Auction Block (01:56)
16. Hole in the Bucket (02:17)
17. What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor (02:17)
18. Army Life (02:07)
19. Blue Mountain Lake (02:48)
20. Lady Margaret (02:55)
21. John Hardy (03:33)
22. Johnson (02:51)
23. John Riley (02:29)
24. Washer Lad (01:14)
25. Talking Blues (02:05)
26. Lolly‐Too‐Dum (03:35)
27. T.B. Blues (04:05)
28. Summertime (03:40)
Disc 5: Volume 5 (01:09:40)
1. Trail to Mexico (02:49)
2. Red River Valley (02:10)
3. Old Joe Clark (03:57)
4. St. James Infirmary (02:34)
5. Greer County Bachelor (02:36)
6. Ox Driver’s Song (01:55)
7. Buffalo Gals (02:22)
8. Joe Bowers (03:00)
9. Texian Boys (01:31)
10. My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines (00:29)
11. Johnny Gray (01:55)
12. Cowboy Yodel (00:55)
13. Sioux Indians (03:42)
14. Ida Reed (01:57)
15. Holler (01:19)
16. Cumberland Gap (01:23)
17. Wake Up, Jacab (00:21)
18. Sweet Betsy From Pike (03:28)
19. Buffalo Skinners (02:46)
20. Wiskey, Rye Whiskey (02:18)
21. Stewball (04:57)
22. Whoopie Ti‐Yi‐Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies (01:31)
23. Strawberry Roan (05:05)
24. Jay Gould’s Daughter (02:42)
25. Play‐Party (01:26)
26. I Never Will Marry (02:07)
27. Riflemen of Bennington (02:14)
28. Kingdom Coming (02:36)
29. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase (03:35)
Product Description
These songs have been part of the fabric of America for a half century or more - and these five volumes of folk ballads recorded by Pete in the '50s and '60s were an integral part of our folk revival. Here are all 139 folk ballads on 5 CDs, each with it's own booklet full of extensive notes; legendary songs and performances abound: John Henry; Clementine; Goodnight Irene; Yankee Doodle; Old Dan Tucker; Hole in the Bucket; This Land Is Your Land; America the Beautiful; Midnight Special; Froggie Went A-Courtin'; Boll Weevil; Erie Canal; Arkansas Traveler, and more!
From the Artist
Pete Seeger began singing, playing the banjo, and collecting folk music in the mid-1930s¯and has continued doing so into the 21st century. His life encompasses the social upheavals and transformations of much of the 20th century, while his peace anthems and songs of struggle and hope thread through our national soundtrack. They are as often sung by schoolchildren as by activists at peace and environmental rallies. Even in his late eighties, he inspires people across generations, cultures, and nations.
Moses Asch founded Folkways Records in 1948 to document folk music and other sounds from around the world. Considering these to be educational as well as entertaining, yet aware of their limited commercial appeal, he directed his sales towards libraries and schools. Pete Seeger's five-volume series American Favorite Ballads (recorded 1957-1962), comprised of classic songs from the American experience that adults and children could sing together, formed a cornerstone for Asch's primary audience. Pete Seeger recorded 38 albums for Folkways between 1950 and 1964.
The Smithsonian Institution acquired Folkways from the Asch estate in 1987; Asch's emphasis on the educational nature of Folkways recordings comported perfectly with the Institution's mandate, the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of Folkways and the 20th anniversary of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. We are pleased to honor Pete Seeger's life and legacy through this reissue, and continue our commitment to preserve and expand Asch's "encyclopedia of sound," thus keeping it available for current and future generations of listeners.
These songs have been part of the fabric of America for a half century or more - and these five volumes of folk ballads recorded by Pete in the '50s and '60s were an integral part of our folk revival. Here are all 139 folk ballads on 5 CDs, each with it's own booklet full of extensive notes; legendary songs and performances abound: John Henry; Clementine; Goodnight Irene; Yankee Doodle; Old Dan Tucker; Hole in the Bucket; This Land Is Your Land; America the Beautiful; Midnight Special; Froggie Went A-Courtin'; Boll Weevil; Erie Canal; Arkansas Traveler, and more!
From the Artist
Pete Seeger began singing, playing the banjo, and collecting folk music in the mid-1930s¯and has continued doing so into the 21st century. His life encompasses the social upheavals and transformations of much of the 20th century, while his peace anthems and songs of struggle and hope thread through our national soundtrack. They are as often sung by schoolchildren as by activists at peace and environmental rallies. Even in his late eighties, he inspires people across generations, cultures, and nations.
Moses Asch founded Folkways Records in 1948 to document folk music and other sounds from around the world. Considering these to be educational as well as entertaining, yet aware of their limited commercial appeal, he directed his sales towards libraries and schools. Pete Seeger's five-volume series American Favorite Ballads (recorded 1957-1962), comprised of classic songs from the American experience that adults and children could sing together, formed a cornerstone for Asch's primary audience. Pete Seeger recorded 38 albums for Folkways between 1950 and 1964.
The Smithsonian Institution acquired Folkways from the Asch estate in 1987; Asch's emphasis on the educational nature of Folkways recordings comported perfectly with the Institution's mandate, the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of Folkways and the 20th anniversary of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. We are pleased to honor Pete Seeger's life and legacy through this reissue, and continue our commitment to preserve and expand Asch's "encyclopedia of sound," thus keeping it available for current and future generations of listeners.
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