Classic American Ballads From Smithsonian Folkways (Audio CD - 3/23/2015)

Born of the British ballad, its American offspring was the blank canvas for all type of tale, the more calamitous or scandalous, the better. Jesse James and Billy the Kid, train wrecks and hurricanes, the Titanic and Tom Dooley, fatal lovers' quarrels and foiling the devil, all and more were normal fare, served up in a song. Classic American Ballads is 25 tracks of time-worn tragedy drawn from the deep fount of the Smithsonian Folkways archives. 74 minutes, 40-page booklet with extensive notes and photos.

Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed

TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1
1 Banks of the Ohio - Doc Watson
2 Blue Mountain Lake - Pete Seeger
3 Claude Allen - Hobart Smith
4 Cole Younger - Dock Boggs
5 Cowboy's Lament - Buck Ramsey
6 Boll Weevil - Sam Hinton
7 Duncan and Brady - Lead Belly
8 Floyd Collins - Paul Clayton
9 Frankie and Johnny - Eric Von Schmidt
10 John Henry - John Jackson
11 Jesse James
12 Billy the Kid - Woody Guthrie
13 The Death of the Lawson Family - Glen Neaves
14 Naomi Wise - Doug Wallin
15 Pearl Bryan - Bruce Buckley
16 Sam Bass - Hermes Nye
17 Springfield Mountain - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
18 Tom Dooley
19 Tying a Knot In the Devil's Tail - Cisco Houston
20 Young Charlotte - Pete Seeger
21 Wasn't That a Mighty Storm - Tex-I-An Boys
22 Zebra Dun - Joan O'Bryant
23 The Titanic - Pink Anderson
24 The Louisville Burglar - Iron Mountain String Band
25 The F.F.V - Annie Watson