
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.
1) Barbara Allen
2) Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
3) Midnight Special
4) House of the Rising Sun
5) Careless Love
6) Oh What a Beautiful City
7) Poor Boy
8) Sally Ann
9) The Riddle Song
10) Go Tell Aunt Rhody
11) The Water Is Wide
12) The Fox
13) The Keeper and the Doe
14) Pretty Polly
15) Jesse James
16) Stagolee
17) Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
18) Camptown Races
19) Blow the Man Down
20) Froggie Went a Courtin'
21) I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song)
22) Putting on the Style
23) The Farmer's Curst Wife
24) Hard Travelin'
25) Alabama Round
26) Wimoweh
27) Dink's Song