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| Management number | 205638764 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $46.35 | Model Number | 205638764 | ||
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Title: Classic American Ballads
Artist: Classic American Ballads
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093074021521
Genre: Country, Folk
Release Date: 2015-03-23
Number of Discs: 1
Born of the British ballad, it's American offspring was the blank canvas for all type of tale, the more calamitous 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.
Tracks:
1.1 Banks of the Ohio - Doc Watson and Bill Monroe
1.2 Blue Mountain Lake - Pete Seeger
1.3 Claude Allen - Hobart Smith
1.4 Cole Younger - Dock Boggs
1.5 Cowboy's Lament (Streets of Laredo) - Buck Ramsey
1.6 Boll Weevil - Sam Hinton
1.7 Duncan and Brady - Lead Belly
1.8 Floyd Collins - Paul Clayton
1.9 Frankie and Johnny - Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt
1.10 John Henry - John Jackson
1.11 Jesse James - Sis Cunningham, Mike Millins, and Wes Houston
1.12 Billy the Kid - Woody Guthrie
1.13 The Death of the Lawson Family - Glen Neaves
1.14 Naomi Wise - Doug Wallin
1.15 Pearl Bryan - Bruce Buckley
1.16 Sam Bass - Hermes Nye
1.17 Springfield Mountain - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
1.18 Tom Dooley - Glen Neaves, Roscoe Russell, Ivor Melton, Warren Brown, and Ted Lundy
1.19 Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail - Cisco Houston
1.20 Young Charlotte - Pete Seeger
1.21 Wasn't That a Mighty Storm? - the Tex-I-An Boys
1.22 Zebra Dun - Joan O'Bryant
1.23 The Titanic - Pink Anderson
1.24 The Louisville Burglar - the Iron Mountain String Band
1.25 The F.F.V. (Engine 143) - Annie Watson
Artist: Classic American Ballads
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093074021521
Genre: Country, Folk
Release Date: 2015-03-23
Number of Discs: 1
Born of the British ballad, it's American offspring was the blank canvas for all type of tale, the more calamitous 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.
Tracks:
1.1 Banks of the Ohio - Doc Watson and Bill Monroe
1.2 Blue Mountain Lake - Pete Seeger
1.3 Claude Allen - Hobart Smith
1.4 Cole Younger - Dock Boggs
1.5 Cowboy's Lament (Streets of Laredo) - Buck Ramsey
1.6 Boll Weevil - Sam Hinton
1.7 Duncan and Brady - Lead Belly
1.8 Floyd Collins - Paul Clayton
1.9 Frankie and Johnny - Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt
1.10 John Henry - John Jackson
1.11 Jesse James - Sis Cunningham, Mike Millins, and Wes Houston
1.12 Billy the Kid - Woody Guthrie
1.13 The Death of the Lawson Family - Glen Neaves
1.14 Naomi Wise - Doug Wallin
1.15 Pearl Bryan - Bruce Buckley
1.16 Sam Bass - Hermes Nye
1.17 Springfield Mountain - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
1.18 Tom Dooley - Glen Neaves, Roscoe Russell, Ivor Melton, Warren Brown, and Ted Lundy
1.19 Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail - Cisco Houston
1.20 Young Charlotte - Pete Seeger
1.21 Wasn't That a Mighty Storm? - the Tex-I-An Boys
1.22 Zebra Dun - Joan O'Bryant
1.23 The Titanic - Pink Anderson
1.24 The Louisville Burglar - the Iron Mountain String Band
1.25 The F.F.V. (Engine 143) - Annie Watson
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