Recorded during the heart of the great "folk song revival" of the 1950s and 60s, Seeger's American Favorite Ballads was and is a classic series of albums. This CD is the first in a series of Ballad reissues, and essential for any fan of American folk music to own.
1) John Henry
2) Shenandoah
3) Blue Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
4) Black Girl
5) Skip to My Lou
6) The Big Rock Candy Mountain
7) Clementine
8) Yankee Doodle
9) Home on the Range
10) John Brown's Body
11) Goodnight Irene
12) Swing Low Sweet Chariot
13) Oh Susanna
14) Wayfaring Stranger
15) Oh Mary Don't You Weep
16) Down in the Valley
17) The Wabash Cannonball
18) On Top of Old Smoky
19) Frankie and Johnny
20) I Ride An Old Paint
21) The Wreck of the Old 97
22) Wagoner's Lad
23) Old Dan Tucker
24) I've Been Working
25) Cielito Lindo
26) So Long It's Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)
27) America the Beautiful
28) This Land Is Your Land