Title: Frontier Ballads Artist: Pete Seeger Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093070500327 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
Adventurers, nonconformists, naturalists, and anyone seeking a new life traveled to America's far reaches, singing their old music even as they created new songs to describe life on the frontier. Through Pete Seeger's performance, Frontier Ballads presents the musical expressions of these immigrants, settlers, and workers as they moved westward. Note: This title combines two earlier Folkways 10" vinyl releases. FW02175 Frontier Ballads and FW02176 Frontier Ballads Volume Two.
Tracks: 1.1 Fare You Well Polly (Wagoner's Lad) 1.2 No Irish Need Apply 1.3 Johnny Gray 1.4 Greer County Bachelor (Starving to Death on My Government CL Aim) 1.5 Cowboy Yodel 1.6 The Trail to Mexico 1.7 Joe Bowers 1.8 Wake Up Jacob 1.9 Cumberland Gap 1.10 Erie Canal 1.11 Blow the Man Down 1.12 Ox Driver's Song 1.13 The Tex-I-An Boys 1.14 Sioux Indians 1.15 Ground Hog 1.16 Blue Mountain Lake 1.17 Paddy Works on the Railroad 1.18 The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn 1.19 Old Joe Clark 1.20 My Sweetheart in the Mines 1.21 Holler 1.22 Arkansas Traveler 1.23 When I Was Single 1.24 Wondrous Love 1.25 Play Party 1.26 Rye Whiskey 1.27 The Wayfaring Stranger
