In the one hundred years that folk music has been recorded in the United States, the tradition has embraced ballads - mostly new, but some transplanted from Europe, political statements, personal introspection, and much more. Now the story is here from the 1920s to the 1970s and beyond in four exclusive 3-CD sets. Through this music, we feel it all from the isolation of early twentieth century Appalachia through the economic and political upheavals of the Depression, War, and Civil Rights eras to contemporary west coast singer-songwriters looking within for inspiration. The story is here: original artists and original versions in stunning sound with detailed notes from folk scholar Dave Samuelson.
Part 1
CD1 The Influences
01. Goebel Reeves / The Hobo's Lullaby
02. The Carter Family / I Never Will Marry
03. The Carter Family / Little Darling, Pal Of Mine
04. The Carter Family / Wildwood Flower
05. Leadbelly / The Midnight Special
06. Leadbelly / Western Plain (When I Was A Cowboy)
07. Leadbelly / Rock Island Line
08. Carl Sandburg / The Horse Named Bill
09. Dixon Brothers / Weave Room Blues
10. Earl Robinson / Joe Hill
11. Earl Robinson / The House I Live In
12. Earl Robinson / The Frozen Logger
13. Josh White / One Meat Ball
14. Burl Ives / The Wayfaring Stranger
15. Woody Guthrie / Do Re Mi
16. Woody Guthrie / I Ain't Got No Home
17. Woody Guthrie / Pretty Boy Floyd
18. Woody Guthrie / Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good To Know You)
19. Woody Guthrie / Babe O' Mine
20. Woody Guthrie / Grand Coulee Dam
21. Woody Guthrie / Ramblin' Round
22. Woody Guthrie / Hard Travelin'
23. Woody Guthrie / This Land Is Your Land
24. Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston / Philadelphia Lawyer
25. Woody Guthrie / I've Got To Know
CD2 The Forties
01. The Almanac Singers / Hard, Ain't It Hard
02. The Almanac Singers / Which Side Are You On
03. The Almanac Singers / Union Maid
04. The Almanac Singers / Union Train
05. The Almanac Singers / Sinking Of The Reuben James
06. The Union Boys / U.A.W. - C.I.O.
07. The Union Boys / A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore
08. The Union Boys / Solidarity Forever
09. Sam Hinton / Old Man Atom (Talking Atomic Blues)
10. Dick Blakeslee / Passing Through
11. Vern Partlow / Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People
12. Pete Seeger / Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
13. Pete Seeger / The Death Of Harry Simms
14. Pete Seeger / No Irish Need Apply
15. Pete Seeger / Darling Corey
16. Terry Gilkyson / The Cry Of The Wild Goose
17. Merle Travis / Sixteen Tons
18. Merle Travis / Dark As A Dungeon
19. The Weavers / Wasn't That A Time
20. The Weavers / Banks Of Marble
21. The Weavers / The Hammer Song
22. The Weavers / Good-Night Irene
23. The Weavers / So Long, It's Been Good To Know You
24. Duncan, Lieberman, Sanders & Smith / Die Gedanken sind frei
CD3 The 1950s
01. Cisco Houston / Nine Hundred Miles
02. Cisco Houston / Diamond Joe
03. Cisco Houston / Great American Bum
04. Jean Ritchie / Jubilee
05. Jean Ritchie / Dear Companion
06. Oscar Brand / Bootlegger's Song
07. Oscar Brand / Around Her Neck
08. Oscar Brand & Jean Ritchie / Paper Of Pins
09. Cynthia Gooding / Go 'Way From My Window
10. Ed McCurdy / John Brown's Body
11. Will Holt / Raspberries, Strawberries (Ah! les fraises et les framboises)
12. Will Holt / The M.T.A.
13. Bob Gibson / Delia
14. Bob Gibson / Abilene
15. Paul Clayton / Gotta Travel On
16. Paul Clayton / Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone
17. Paul Clayton / Pay Day At Coal Creek
18. The Gateway Singers / The Ballad Of Sigmund Freud
19. The Gateway Singers / Come To The Dance
20. The Easy Riders / Marianne
21. The Easy Riders / Strolling Blues
22. The Easy Riders / Green Fields
23. The Easy Riders / Kari Waits For Me
24. Vince Martin & The Tarriers / Cindy Oh Cindy
25. The Tarriers / The Banana Boat Song
26. The Tarriers / Those Brown Eyes
Part 2
СD4 The Popular Folk Music Era
01. The Kingston Trio / Tom Dooley
02. The Kingston Trio / Scotch And Soda
03. The Kingston Trio / The M.T.A.
04. The Kingston Trio / A Worried Man
05. The Kingston Trio / The New Frontier
06. The Kingston Trio / Run The Ridges
07. The Kingston Trio / If You Don't Look Around
08. The Journeymen / Soft Blow The Summer Winds
09. The Journeymen / Hush Now Sally
10. The Journeymen / Ride, Ride, Ride
11. The Journeymen / Someone To Talk My Troubles To
12. The Limeliters / A Dollar Down
13. The Limeliters / Those Were The Days
14. The Limeliters / Adios Mi Corazon (Spanish Is The Loving Tongue)
15. The Chad Mitchell Trio / Dubarry Done Gone Again
16. The Chad Mitchell Trio / The Marvelous Toy
17. The Chad Mitchell Trio / One Man's Hands
18. The Chad Mitchell Trio / That's The Way It's Gonna Be
19. The Chad Mitchell Trio / Leaving On A Jet Plane
20. Bud & Travis / South Wind
21. Bud & Travis / Cloudy Summer Afternoon
22. The Highwaymen / Michael
23. The Highwaymen / Cotton Fields
24. The Rooftop Singers / Walk Right In
25. The Rooftop Singers / Tom Cat
26. The New Christy Minstrels / Green Green
27. The New Christy Minstrels / Today
CD5 The Standard Bearers
01. Bob Dylan / Blowing In The Wind
02. Bob Dylan / Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
03. Bob Dylan / Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
04. Bob Dylan / Masters Of War
05. Bob Dylan / The Times They Are A-Changin'
06. Bob Dylan / Mr. Tambourine Man
07. Phil Ochs / There But For Fortune
08. Phil Ochs / Power And The Glory
09. Phil Ochs / I Ain't Marching Anymore
10. Phil Ochs / Draft Dodger Rag
11. Phil Ochs / Changes
12. Phil Ochs / When I'm Gone
13. Tom Paxton / Ramblin' Boy
14. Tom Paxton / I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
15. Tom Paxton / The Last Thing On My Mind
16. Tom Paxton / What Did You Learn In School Today?
17. Tom Paxton / Ain't That News
18. Tom Paxton / Bottle Of Wine
19. Eric Andersen / Dusty Box Car Wall
20. Eric Andersen / Violets Of Dawn
21. Eric Andersen / Thirsty Boots
22. Eric Andersen / Close The Door Lightly When You Go
CD6 Greenwich Village
01. The Tarriers / Seven Daffodils
02. Dave Van Ronk / Cocaine Blues
03. Dave Van Ronk / Come Back Baby
04. Dave Van Ronk / Bad Dream Blues
05. Judy Collins / Anathea
06. Judy Collins / Hey Nelly Nelly
07. Judy Collins / Carry It On
08. Peter LaFarge / The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
09. Peter LaFarge / As Long As The Grass Shall Grow
10. The Greenbriar Boys / Stewball
11. The Greenbriar Boys / Different Drum
12. Patrick Sky / Many a Mile
13. Tim Hardin / Reason To Believe
14. Tim Hardin / If I Were A Carpenter
15. Tim Hardin / The Lady Came From Baltimore
16. Fred Neil / The Other Side Of Life
17. Fred Neil / Blues On The Ceiling
18. Fred Neil / Little Bit Of Rain
19. Fred Neil / The Dolphins
20. Fred Neil / Everybody's Talking
21. David Blue / Grand Hotel
Part 3
CD7 Pete Seeger - Joan Baez - Buffy Sainte-Marie
01. Pete Seeger / Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
02. Pete Seeger / Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
03. Pete Seeger / Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
04. Pete Seeger / The Bells Of Rhymney
05. Pete Seeger / Turn! Turn! Turn!
06. Pete Seeger / Song Of The Punch Press Operator
07. Pete Seeger / Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
08. Pete Seeger / From Way Up Here
09. Pete Seeger / The Clearwater
10. Pete Seeger / Last Train To Nuremberg
11. Pete Seeger / Hobo's Lullaby
12. Joan Baez / What Have They Done To The Rain?
13. Joan Baez / We Shall Overcome
14. Joan Baez / Farewell, Angelina
15. Joan Baez / Daddy, You've Been On My Mind
16. Joan Baez / Legend Of A Girl Child Linda
17. Joan Baez / The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
18. Joan Baez / Diamonds And Rust
19. Buffy Sainte-Marie / Now That The Buffalo's Gone
20. Buffy Sainte-Marie / Cod'ine
21. Buffy Sainte-Marie / The Universal Soldier
22. Buffy Sainte-Marie / Until It's Time For You To Go
23. Buffy Sainte-Marie / The Piney Wood Hills
24. Buffy Sainte-Marie / My Country 'Tis Of Thy People You're Dying
CD8 Cambridge And East Coast
01. Tom Rush / On The Road Again
02. Tom Rush / No Regrets
03. Tom Rush / Merrimack County
04. Eric Von Schmidt / Joshua Gone Barbados
05. Eric Von Schmidt / Light Rain
06. Mitch Greenhill / Won't You Tell Me
07. Mitch Greenhill / Highway 301 Blues
08. Bill Keith & Jim Rooney / One Morning In May
09. Bill Keith & Jim Rooney / Kentucky Moonshiner
10. Jim Kewskin And The Jug Band / Three Songs - A Look At The Ragtime Era (Sister Kate's Night Out)
11. Geoff Muldaur / Ginger Man
12. The Jim Kweskin Jug Band / Minglewood
13. The Jim Kweskin Jug Band / Garden Of Joy
14. Maria Muldaur / Midnight At The Oasis
15. Jack Elliott / South Coast
16. Jack Elliott / San Francisco Bay Blues
17. Arlo Guthrie / Coming In To Los Angeles
18. Arlo Guthrie / Percy's Song
19. Arlo Guthrie / Alice's Restaurant
CD9 East Coast
01. The Lovin' Spoonful / Daydream
02. The Lovin' Spoonful / Younger girl
03. The Lovin' Spoonful / Darlin' companion
04. Tim Rose / Hey Joe
05. Paul Siebel / Louise
06. Paul Siebel / Any day woman
07. Jonathan Edwards / Sunshine
08. Jonathan Edwards / Shanty
09. Jim Croce / You don't mess around with Jim
10. Jim Croce / Time in a bottle
11. Jim Croce / Bad, bad Leroy Brown
12. Jim Croce / Operator (That's not the way it feels)
13. Jim Croce / I got a name
14. David Bromberg / The holdup
15. David Bromberg / Danger man
16. Melanie / Lay down
17. Melanie / What they've done to my song, ma
18. Melanie / Brand new key
19. Harry Chapin / Taxi
20. Harry Chapin / Cat's in the Craddle
Part 4
CD10 The West Coast
01. Rod McKuen / Love's Been Good To Me
02. Rod McKuen / Seasons In The Sun
03. Mason Williams / Long Time Gone
04. Mark Spoelstra / The Times I've Had
05. Mark Spoelstra / She's Gone
06. Mark Spoelstra / Five And Twenty Questions
07. Dian James / If I Were Free
08. Dian James / He Was A Friend Of Mine
09. Malvina Reynolds / Little Boxes
10. Richard & Mimi Farina / Pack Up Your Sorrows
11. Richard & Mimi Farina / The Falcon
12. Richard & Mimi Farina / Birmingham Sunday
13. Richard & Mimi Farina / Bold Marauder
14. Richard & Mimi Farina / A Swallow Song
15. The Byrds / Hickory Wind
16. Gene Clark / Tried So Hard
17. Dillard & Clark Expedition / Train Leaves Here This Morning
18. Tim Buckley / Once I Was
19. John Stewart / July, You're A Woman
20. John Stewart / California Bloodlines
21. Harry Nilsson / One (Is A Lonely Number)
22. Harry Nilsson / Rainmaker
23. Michael Nesmith / Joanne
24. Michael Nesmith / Calico Girl Friend
25. John Denver / Take Me Home, Country Roads
26. John Denver / Rocky Mountain High
27. John Denver / Back Home
CD11 The South
01. Jimmie Driftwood / The Battle Of New Orleans
02. Jimmie Driftwood / Tennessee Stud
03. Jimmie Driftwood / What Color Is The Soul Of A Man
04. Obray Ramsey / Rain And Snow
05. Hedy West / 500 Miles
06. Hedy West / Cotton Mill Girls
07. Jean Ritchie / The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
08. Jean Ritchie / Blue Diamond Mines
09. Jean Ritchie / Black Waters
10. Billy Edd Wheeler / Coal Tattoo
11. Billy Edd Wheeler / Blistered
12. Billy Edd Wheeler / Jackson
13. Billy Edd Wheeler / High Flying Bird
14. John Hartford / Gentle On My Mind
15. John Hartford / Natural To Be Gone
16. John Hartford / California Earthquake
17. John Hartford / Steamboat Whistle Blues
18. Mickey Newbury / How I Love Them Old Songs
19. Mickey Newbury / Sweet Memories
20. Jerry Jeff Walker / Mr. Bojangles
21. Townes Van Zandt / Pancho And Lefty
22. Steve Young / Seven Bridges Road
23. Jesse Winchester / Brand New Tennessee Waltz
24. Jesse Winchester / Yankee Lady
25. Kris Kristofferson / Me And Bobby McGee
26. Kris Kristofferson / Help Me Make It Through The Night
27. Kris Kristofferson / Casey's Last
CD12 The Heartland And Canada
01. Mike Settle / Settle Down
02. Mike Settle / Sing Hallelujah
03. Hoyt Axton / Greenback Dollar
04. Hoyt Axton / Thunder 'N' Lightnin'
05. Bob Gibson / Blues Around My Head
06. Bob Gibson / Where I'm Bound
07. Bob Gibson & Hamilton (Bob) Camp / Daddy Roll 'Em
08. Spider John Koerner / Good Time Charlie
09. Shel Silverstein / The Unicorn
10. Shel Silverstein / Bury Me In My Shades
11. John Prine / Sam Stone
12. John Prine / Angel From Montgomery
13. John Prine / Paradise
14. John Prine / Souvenirs
15. Steve Goodman / City Of New Orleans
16. Ian & Sylvia / Four Strong Winds
17. Ian & Sylvia / You Were On My Mind
18. Ian & Sylvia / Some Day Soon
19. Ian & Sylvia / Summer Wages
20. Gordon Lightfood / For Loving Me
21. Gordon Lightfood / Early Morning Rain
22. Gordon Lightfood / Did She Mention My Name?
23. Bonnie Dobson / Morning Dew
24. Gene MacLellan / Snowbird
25. Gene MacLellan / Put Your Hand In The Hand
26. Joni Mitchell / Both Sides
