Pete Seeger has long set the standard for interpreters of American traditional and topical songs. This fourth volume in the popular series compiled from the Folkways Records American Favorite Ballads series of the 1950s and 1960s features Seeger’s versions of classic folk songs from America’s past. Extensive liner notes by folk song scholar Guy Logsdon describes their origins in an emerging nation and their place in the American folk song movement. American Favorite Ballads is a classic among classics.
Banks of the Ohio
You Are My Sunshine
Hallelujah, I’m a Bum
Foggy Dew
Molly Malone
Old Maid’s Song
Oh How He Lied
Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow
Leatherwing Bat
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Farther Along
Go Down Moses
All My Trials
Monsieur Banjo
No More Auction Block
Hole in the Bucket
What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor
Army Life
Blue Mountain Lake
Lady Margret
John Hardy
The Three Butchers
John Riley
Washer Lad
Talking Blues
Lolly Too Dum
T.B. Blues
Summertime