American Favorite Ballads, Vols. 1-5 (5-CD Box Set)

Rolling Stone: 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[Seeger] invests each tune with his cheeky spirit....Seeger steps aside and lets the songs shine."

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 5
Released: October 21, 2009
Originally Released: 2009
Label: Smithsonian Folkways

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - p.74

4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[Seeger] invests each tune with his cheeky spirit....Seeger steps aside and lets the songs shine."

Dirty Linen - p.52

"[T]he repertoire is far-ranging, including cowboy ballads, British folk songs, country standards, blues tunes, patriotic ditties, railroad songs, spirituals -- virtually anything that could easily be sung in a group setting..."

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.John Henry [I'm Gonna Die with a Hammer in My Hand] [John Henry Blues] [Steel Driving Man] [Death of John Henry]
2.Shenandoah [the Rolling River] [the Wide Missouri]
3.Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
4.Black Girl [in the Pines] [Where Did You Sleep Last Night?]
5.Skip to My Lou
6.The Big Rock Candy Mountain
7.Clementine [Darling Clementine] [My Darling Clementine] [Oh, My Darling Clementine]
8.Yankee Doodle
9.Home on the Range
10.John Brown's Body
11.Goodnight, Irene [Irene, Goodnight]
12.Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
13.Oh, Susanna
14.Wayfaring Stranger [the Wayfaring Pilgrim] [I'm a Poor Wayfaring Stranger] [Over Jordan] [Poor Wayfaring Stranger]
15.Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep [Mary, Don't You Weep]
16.Down in the Valley [Birmingham Jail] [Little Willie] [Bird in a Cage]
17.The Wabash Cannon Ball
18.On Top of Old Smoky
19.Frankie and Johnny [Frankie] [Frankie and Albert] [Frankie Baker] [Little Frankie] [Frankie's Gamblin' Man]
20.I Ride an Old Paint
21.The Wreck of the Old 97
22.Wagoner's Lad [My Horses Ain't Hungry] [Drunken Hiccups] [Lovin' Nancy] [Fare You Well, Polly]
23.Old Dan Tucker
24.I've Been Working on the Railroad [Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah] [Dinah] [Levee Song] [Workin' on the Line] [the
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 - (previously unreleased)

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Barbara Allen [Barb'ry Ellen] [Barbara Ellen]
2.Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn [A Lazy Farmer Boy] [Lazy Man] [the Young Man Who Wouldn't Raise Corn]
3.Midnight Special
4.House of the Rising Sun [Rising Sun Blues] [Rounder's Luck]
5.Careless Love [Careless Blues] [Loveless Love] [Reckless Love]
6.Oh, What a Beautiful City
7.Poor Boy [Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot (Or Feet)?] [Green Valley Waltz] [Storms Are on the Ocean]
8.Sally Ann [Sandy Land]
9.The Riddle Song [I Gave My Love a Cherry] [Captain Walker's Courtship]
10.Go Tell Aunt Rhody [the Old Gray Goose] [the Old Grey Goose Is Dead] [Go Tell Aunt Tabby] [Go Tell Aunt Nancy]
11.The Water Is Wide [Waly, Waly] [the Brisk Young Lover] [Down in the Meadow]
12.The Fox [the Fox and His Wife] [the Fox and the Grey Goose] [Old Miss Flipper Flopper]
13.The Keeper and the Doe [the Keeper] [Hey Down, Hoe Down]
14.Pretty Polly [the Gosport Tragedy] [the Cruel Ship's Carpenter] [the Ship Carpenter] [the Ghost Ship]
15.Jesse James [the Death of Jesse James] [the Life and Death of Jesse James]
16.Stagolee [Stackolee] [Stagger Lee] [Stack Lee]
17.Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair [Black, Black, Black]
18.Camptown Races [Gwine to Run All Night]
19.Blow the Man Down
20.Froggie Went a Courtin' [the Frog and Mouse] [the Frog He Would a Wooing Go] [the Frog's Courtship] [King Kong Kitchie K
21.I Had a Rooster (Barnyard Song) [the Barnyard Song] [My Little Rooster] [I Love My Rooster] [Green Berry Tree]
22.Putting on the Style
23.The Farmer's Curst Wife [the Farmer's Old Wife] [the Devil and the Farmer's Wife] [the Old Lady and the Devil]
24.Hard Travelin'
25.Alabama Bound [Don't You Leave Me Here]
26.Wimoweh [the Lion Sleeps Tonight]
27.Dink's Song [Dink's Blues] [Nora's Dove] [Fare Thee Well]

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Gypsy Davy [Raggle-Taggle Gypsies] [the Gypsy Laddie] [Whistling Gypsy] [Black Jack Davy (Davie)]
2.Deep Blue Sea
3.New River Train [Darlin'] [I'll Be on That New Road Someday] [Green River Train] [Riding on That New River Train]
4.St. James Hospital [the Unfortunate Rake] [Gambler's Blues] [Streets of Laredo]
5.E-Ri-E Canal [Erie Canal] [the E-Ri-E Was Rising] [the Canal Boat Song]
6.St. Louis Blues
7.Boll Weevil [Boll Weevil Song] [Boll Weevil Blues] [Mississippi Boweavil Blues] [Boll Weevil and Farmer] [Looking for a
8.The Girl I Left Behind [Brighton Camp] [Regimental Song of the 7th Infantry] [the Gal I Left Behind Me] [That Pretty Little
9.When I First Came to This Land
10.The Titanic [When That Great Ship Went Down] [the Sinking of the Titanic] [the Great Titanic]
11.El-A-Noy [Illinois] [the Plains of Illinois] [the State of Illinois] [State of El-A-Noy]
12.Lady of Carlysle [in Carlysle There Lived a Lady] [the Bold Lieutenant] [Down in Carlisle]
13.My Good Man [My Good Old Man] [Three Nights Drunk] [Four Nights Drunk] [Seven Nights Drunk] [Drunkard's Sp
14.Golden Vanity [the Lowlands Low] [the Lonesome Sea Ballad] [the Sweet Trinity]
15.Ain't It a Shame [Ain't Dat a Shame] [Bill Bailey, Ain't That a Shame]
16.Swanee River [Way Down Upon the Swanee River]
17.Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child [Motherless Child]
18.The Boys from County Mayo [Shamrock]
19.No Irish Need Apply
20.Paddy Works on the Railroad [Fillimeeooreay] [Pat Works on the Railway] [Paddy Works on the Railway] [Paddy on the Railw
21.Arkansas Traveler [Arkansaw Traveler] [the Original Arkansas Traveler]
22.When I Was Single [When I Was Single, My Pockets Would Jingle] [I Wish I Was Single Again] [Single Girl] [the Drunkard's
23.Wond'rous Love
24.Ground Hog [Groun' Hog] [Old Ground Hog]
25.Old Blue [Go on Blue] [Old Dog Blue]
26.She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
27.Erie Canal [My Gal Sal] [Low Bridge] [Everybody Down] [Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal] [Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.Banks of the Ohio [the Banks of the O. B. D.] [Down Beside the Ohio] [Down on the Banks of the Ohio] [Miss Julie]
2.You Are My Sunshine
3.Hallelujah, I'm a Bum [Hallelujah, Bum Again] [Hallelujah on the Bum]
4.The Foggy Dew [the Foggy, Foggy Dew] [the Bugaboo]
5.Molly Malone [in Dublin's Fair City]
6.Old Maid's Song [Take Me out of Pity] [Don't Let Me Die an Old Maid] [the Black Chimney Sweeper]
7.Oh, How He Lied [the Deceiver] [He Told Her He Loved Her] [the Villain and the Maiden]
8.Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow
9.Leatherwing Bat [the Bird Song] [the Birds' Courting Song] [the Birds' Conversation]
10.Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier [Shule Aroon] [Shule Agrah] [Buttermilk Hill]
11.Farther Along
12.Go Down, Moses
13.All My Trials
14.Monsieur Banjo [Michie Banjo] [Mister Banjo] [Mister Banjo - Look at the Dandy]
15.No More Auction Block [Many Thousand Go]
16.Hole in the Bucket [the Bucket Song] [Jug Hot en Loch, Der] [Leiwer Heindrich]
17.What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor [the Drunken Sailor] (Early in the Morning) [Hooray an' Up She Rises]
18.Army Life [Gee, But I Want to Go Home] [I Don't Want No More Army]
19.Blue Mountain Lake [the Bells of Long Lake] [Come All Ye Good Fellers]
20.Lady Margaret [Lady Margaret and Sweet William] [Fair Margaret and Sweet William] [Fair Margaret's Misfortune]
21.John Hardy [Johnny Hard] [John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man] [Johnny Harty]
22.Johnson [the Three Butchers] [the Two Butchers] [Young Butcher Boy]
23.John Riley [Pretty Fair Maid] [the Broken Token] [as I Walked out Some Summer's Morning]
24.Washer Lad [Four Pence a Day]
25.Talking Blues [the Original Talking Blues]
26.Lolly Too Dum [the Fit Comes on Me Now] [I Must and I Will Get Married Now]
27.T. B. Blues
28.Summertime [Summertime an' the Livin' Is Easy]

Tracks on Disc 5:

1.Trail to Mexico [Following the Cow Trail]
2.Red River Valley
3.Old Joe Clark [Joe Clarke] [Ole Joe Clark]
4.St. James Infirmary [the Unfortunate Rake] [St. James Hospital] [Gambler's Blues] [Those Gambler's Blues]
5.Green County Bachelor [Starving to Death on My Government Claim] [Lane County Bachelor]
6.Ox Driver's Song [Ox Driving Song-Pop My Whip]
7.Buffalo Gals
8.Joe Bowers [the Disappointment of Joe Bowers] [When I Struck Muskoka]
9.Texian Boys
10.My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines
11.Johnny Gray [Peter Gray] [Ballad of Peter Gray] [Blow Ye Winds of Morning]
12.Cowboy Yodel
13.Sioux Indians
14.Ida Red
15.Holler
16.Cumberland Gap
17.Wake Up, Jacob [Cowboy's Gettin'-Up Holler] [Morning Grub Holler]
18.Sweet Betsy from Pike [Betsy from Pike]
19.Buffalo Skinners [the Buffalo Range] [the Range of the Buffalo] [Boggy Creek]
20.Whiskey, Rye Whiskey [Jack O'Diamonds] [Clinch Mountain]
21.Stewball [Skewball] [Molly and Tenbrooks] [Stuball]
22.Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies [Git Along, Little Dogies]
23.Strawberry Roan - (previously unreleased)
24.Jay Gould's Daughter [Kassie Jones]
25.Play-Party
26.I Never Will Marry [the Damsel's Lament] [Down by the Sea-Shore] [One Day as I Rambled]
27.Riflemen of Bennington [the Bennington Riflemen]
28.Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo) [the Year of Jubilo] [Jubilo] [Lincoln's Gunboats]
29.Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase [Bear Hunt] [Bear Chase]