These 160 songs all come from a time when music was made for the listeners’ enjoyment only. At that time, the commercial success played only a small role. Only a few years later, covers of many of these songs became hits in the Pop, Country & Western and Rock ‘n’ Roll charts. Here, you can listen to the original songs, presented by the stars of their time including Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, the Weavers, the Sons of the Pioneers, the Carter Family and Joan Baez.
Disc: 1
1. Joan Baez – On the Banks of the Ohio
2. Jimmie Driftwood – the Battle of New Orleans
3. Leadbelly – Midnight Special
4. Woody Guthrie – This Land Is Your Land
5. The Union Boys – U.A.W.-C.I.O
6. The Weavers – the Wreck of the John B
7. Burl Ives – Big Rock Candy Mountain
8. Pete Seeger – Cindy
9. Dock Boggs – Down South
10. The Tarriers – Tom Dooley
11. The Almanac Singers – Liza Jane
12. Burl Ives – Solidarity Forever
13. Elizabeth Cotton – Freight Train
14. Woody Guthrie – 900 Miles
15. Pete Seeger – the Erie Canal
16. The Happiness Boys – Does the Spearmint Lose It’s Flavor
Disc: 2
1. Jimmie Driftwood – I’m Too Young to Marry
2. Odetta – Jack O’ Diamonds
3. Pete Seeger – Casey Jones
4. Burl Ives – the Foggy, Foggy Dew
5. Woody Guthrie – Pastures of Plenty
6. Josh White – in My Time of Dying
7. The Weavers – Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
8. Josh White – Strange Fruit
9. Joan Baez – O What a Beautiful Day
10. Leadbelly – John Hardy
11. Cisco Houston – What Did the Deep Blue Sea Say
12. Dick Justice – Henry Lee
13. Woodie Guthrie – Oregon Trail
14. Pete Seeger – Listen, Mister Bilbo
15. Burl Ives – Blue Tail Fly
16. The Tarriers – Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
Disc: 3
1. The Tarriers – the Banana Boat Song
2. Woody Guthrie – Ramblin’ Round
3. Bascom Lamar – Lunsford Dry Bones
4. Pete Seeger – Roll the Union on
5. Burl Ives – Aunt Rhody
6. The Weavers – on Top of Old Smokey
7. The Carter Family – Keep on the Sunny Side
8. Joan Baez – Sail Away Ladies
9. Jimmie Driftwood – Old Joe Clark
10. Charlie Poole – White House Blues
11. Ramblin’ Jack – Elliott Old Blue
12. Pete Seeger – Devilish Mary
13. Brownie McGhee – Black, Brown and White
14. Leadbelly – Pick a Bale of Cotton
15. Burl Ives – I’m Sad and I’m Lonely
16. Woody Guthrie – New Found Land
Disc: 4
1. Woody Guthrie – Gypsy Davy
2. Cisco Houston – Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
3. Joan Baez – Black Is the Colour
4. The Tarriers – Rock Island Line
5. Burl Ives – the Cowboy’s Lament
6. Pete Seeger – Danville Girl
7. The Carter Family – Will the Circle Be Unbroken
8. Jimmie Driftwood – Pretty Mary
9. Blind Willie – McTell Delia
10. Burl Ives – on Top of Old Smokey
11. The Weavers – Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
12. The Everly Brothers – Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
13. Woody Guthrie – Cumberland Gap
14. Burl Ives – on the Grand Canyon Line
15. Pete Seeger – I Had a Wife
16. Leadbelly – See See Rider
Disc: 5
1. Joan Baez – House of the Rising Sun
2. Woody Guthrie – Columbus Stockade
3. The Carter Family – Worried Man Blues
4. Leadbelly – Shorty George
5. Burl Ives – Down in the Valley
6. Pete Seeger – Darling Corey
7. Helen & June Carter – Polly Wolly Doodle
8. Sons of the Pioneers – Tumbling Tumbleweeds
9. The Everly Brothers – That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine
10. Jo Stafford – Old Joe Clark
11. Jimmie Driftwood – Country Boy
12. The Carter Family – Lonesome Valley
13. Burl Ives – Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
14. Woody Guthrie – Old Time Religion
15. Pete Seeger – the Hammer Song
16. The Weavers – the Roving Kind
Disc: 6
1. The Weavers – When the Saints Go Marching in
2. Jo Stafford – Criple Creek
3. Woody Guthrie – Song of the Coulee Dam
4. Jimmie Driftwood – the Land Where the Blue Grass Grows
5. Burl Ives – Goober Peas
6. Pete Seeger – Banks of the Marble
7. Odetta – Santy Anno
8. Leadbelly – Alabama Bound
9. The Carter Family – My Dixie Darling
10. Joan Baez – Fare the Well
11. Bill & Belle Reed – the Old Lady and the Devil
12. Pete Seeger – House of the Rising Sun
13. Burl Ives – the Wayfaring Stranger
14. Woody Guthrie – End of My Line
15. June Carter – Oh Susannah
16. Jimmie Driftwood – Song of the Cowboys
Disc: 7
1. Leadbelly – on a Monday
2. The Carter Family – Are You Lonesome Tonight
3. Burl Ives – Git Along Little Dogies
4. Woody Guthrie – Sourwood Mountain
5. The Weavers – Around the Corner
6. Buell Kazee – the Wagoner’s Lad
7. June Carter – the New Streamliner
8. Jimmie Driftwood – Billy the Kid
9. Chubby Parker – King Kong Kitchie
10. Pete Seeger – the Golden Vanity
11. Uncle Eck Dunford – Old Shoes and Leggins
12. Leadbelly – Little Sally Walker
13. Burl Ives – Wild Side of Life
14. Joan Baez – Wildwood Flower
15. The Weavers – Goodnight Irene
16. Woody Guthrie – Rangers Command
Disc: 8
1. Burl Ives – Barbara Allen
2. Pete Seeger – Billy Boy
3. The Weavers – Hard, Ain’t It Hard
4. Woody Guthrie – Bury Me Beneath the Willow
5. Sons of the Pioneers – Cool Water
6. The Carter Family – Rambling Boy
7. The Carolina Tar Heels – Peg and Awl
8. Leadbelly – Rock Island Line
9. Kelly Harrell – My Name Is John Johanna
10. Burl Ives – Molly Malone
11. Joan Baez – Donna, Donna
12. Frank Hutchison – Stackalee
13. Woody Guthrie – Hard Travelin’
14. Jimmie Driftwood – Jesse James
15. The Carter Family – River of Jordan
16. Jilson Setters – the Wild Wagoner
Disc: 9
1. The Carter Family – Jimmie Brown the Newsboy
2. Woody Guthrie – More That Girls Than One
3. Sons of the Pioneers – Red River Valley
4. Jimmie Driftwood – the Battle of San Juan Hill
5. Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers – Wake Up Jakob
6. Burl Ives – Hey Lully Lully Lo
7. Elders McIntosh & Edward’s Sanctified Singers – Since I Laid My Burden Down
8. Joan Baez – Rake and Rambling Boy
9. Cannon’s Jug Stompers – Minglewood Blues
10. Leadbelly – Take This Hammer
11. Sons of the Pioneers – Cigareetes, Whusky and Wild Wild Women
12. Woody Guthrie – Pretty Boy Floyd
13. Hoyt Ming & His Pep Steppers – Indian War Hop
14. The Weavers – the Bay of Mexico
15. The Carter Family – Chewing Gum
16. Burl Ives – the Devil’s Nine Questions
Disc: 10
1. Sons of the Pioneers – Riders in the Sky
2. Burl Ives – Hound Dog
3. Woody Guthrie – So Long It’s Been Good to Ya
4. The Carter Family – Wildwood Flower
5. Leadbelly – There’s a Man Goin’ Round Takin’ Names
6. Ernest & Hattie Stoneman – Mountaneer’s Courtship
7. Jimmie Driftwood – the Marshall of Silver City
8. The Memphis Jug Band – K. C. Moan
9. Cannon’s Jug Stompers – Feather Bed
10. Joan Baez – Little Moses
11. The Stoneman Family – the Spanish Merchant’s Daughter
12. Burl Ives – Roving Gambler
13. Sons of the Pioneers – Home on the Range
14. Woody Guthrie – John Henry
15. The Carter Family – Wabash Cannonball
16. Leadbelly – Irene Goodnight