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FORMAT: New CD • UPC: 093074021521
GENRE: Country • RECORD LABEL: Smithsonian Folkways
RELEASE DATE: 03/23/15
Classic American Ballads - Classic American Ballads (CD)
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Classic American Ballads - Classic American Ballads (CD)
DESCRIPTION
Born of the British ballad, its American offspring was the blank canvas for all type of tale, the more calami¬tous or scandalous, the better. Jesse James and Billy the Kid, train wrecks and hurricanes, the Titanic and Tom Dooley, fatal lovers’ quarrels and foiling the devil, all and more were normal fare, served up in a song. Classic American Ballads is 25 tracks of time-worn tragedy drawn from the deep fount of the Smithsonian Folkways archives. 74 minutes, 40-page booklet with extensive notes and photos.
Tracklist:
- Banks of the Ohio - Doc Watson
- Blue Mountain Lake - Pete Seeger
- Claude Allen - Hobart Smith
- Cole Younger - Dock Boggs
- Cowboy's Lament - Buck Ramsey
- Boll Weevil - Sam Hinton
- Duncan and Brady - Lead Belly
- Floyd Collins - Paul Clayton
- Frankie and Johnny - Eric Von Schmidt
- John Henry - John Jackson
- Jesse James
- Billy the Kid - Woody Guthrie
- The Death of the Lawson Family - Glen Neaves
- Naomi Wise - Doug Wallin
- Pearl Bryan - Bruce Buckley
- Sam Bass - Hermes Nye
- Springfield Mountain - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Tom Dooley
- Tying a Knot In the Devil's Tail - Cisco Houston
- Young Charlotte - Pete Seeger
- Wasn't That a Mighty Storm - Tex-I-An Boys
- Zebra Dun - Joan O'Bryant
- The Titanic - Pink Anderson
- The Louisville Burglar - Iron Mountain String Band
- The F.F.V - Annie Watson
UPC: 093074021521
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Release Date: 3.23.15
Format: CD
TRACK LIST
Tracklist:
- Banks of the Ohio - Doc Watson
- Blue Mountain Lake - Pete Seeger
- Claude Allen - Hobart Smith
- Cole Younger - Dock Boggs
- Cowboy's Lament - Buck Ramsey
- Boll Weevil - Sam Hinton
- Duncan and Brady - Lead Belly
- Floyd Collins - Paul Clayton
- Frankie and Johnny - Eric Von Schmidt
- John Henry - John Jackson
- Jesse James
- Billy the Kid - Woody Guthrie
- The Death of the Lawson Family - Glen Neaves
- Naomi Wise - Doug Wallin
- Pearl Bryan - Bruce Buckley
- Sam Bass - Hermes Nye
- Springfield Mountain - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Tom Dooley
- Tying a Knot In the Devil's Tail - Cisco Houston
- Young Charlotte - Pete Seeger
- Wasn't That a Mighty Storm - Tex-I-An Boys
- Zebra Dun - Joan O'Bryant
- The Titanic - Pink Anderson
- The Louisville Burglar - Iron Mountain String Band
- The F.F.V - Annie Watson
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