Recorded during the heart of the great “folk song revival” of the 1950s and 1960s, Pete Seeger’s American Favorite Ballads was, and is, a classic series of albums. Ballads contains definitive bits of Americana that have been a part of our lives for more than a half century, including songs like “This Land is Your Land,” “America the Beautiful,” “John Henry,” and “Shenandoah.” This CD is the first in a series of Ballad reissues and is essential for any fan of American folk music to own. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon.
John Henry
Shenandoah
Blue Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
Black Girl
Skip to My Lou
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Clementine
Yankee Doodle
Home on the Range
John Brown’s Body
Goodnight, Irene
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Oh, Susanna
Wayfaring Stranger
Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep
Down in the Valley
The Wabash Cannonball
On Top of Old Smoky
Frankie and Johnny
I Ride An Old Paint
The Wreck of the Old 97
Wagoner’s Lad
Old Dan Tucker
I’ve Been Working
Cielito Lindo
So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)
America the Beautiful
This Land Is Your Land