Title: American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2 Artist: Pete Seeger Label: Smithsonian Folkways Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093074015124 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2003-06-24 Number of Discs: 1
Ballads fuse the arts of music and storytelling.3 Pete Seeger, an American folk hero and icon of the great "folk revival of the 1950s & 1960 s, hand selecton some of his favorite American ballads to compile a series of classic American song-stories flowing from the bedrock tof the American experience. Throught these captivaiting songs, a tale is told of America "once upon a tim". This CD is the second in a series of Ballad reissues and an important recording for any fan of American folk music.
Tracks: 1.1 Barbara Allen 1.2 Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn 1.3 Midnight Special 1.4 House of the Rising Sun 1.5 Careless Love 1.6 Oh, What a Beautiful City 1.7 Poor Boy 1.8 Sally Ann 1.9 The Riddle Song 1.10 Go Tell Aunt Rhody 1.11 The Water Is Wide 1.12 The Fox 1.13 The Keeper and the Doe 1.14 Pretty Polly 1.15 Jesse James 1.16 Stagolee 1.17 Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair 1.18 Camptown Races 1.19 Blow the Man Down 1.20 Froggie Went a Courtin' 1.21 I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song) 1.22 Putting on the Style 1.23 The Farmer's Curst Wife 1.24 Hard Travelin' 1.25 Alabama Round 1.26 Wimoweh 1.27 Dink's Song
