Folk Songs of Courting and Complaint
by Peggy Seeger
- Type: Album
- Released: 1955
- Label: Folkways
- Country: United States
- Length: 12:07
- Community rating: 3.63/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Operating as a vital preservationist of traditional American music, the young folklorist delivers a deeply authentic, unvarnished collection of rural Appalachian narratives. Her stark, ringing banjo accompaniment perfectly underscores a clear, vibrato-less vocal delivery, vividly bringing centuries-old tales of romance and rural hardship to life. The rigorous, historically significant recording provided essential source material for the rapidly coalescing urban folk revival.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, melodic, rhythmic
Tracklist
- Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (1:45)
- When I Was Single (2:55)
- The House Carpenter (4:08)
- When First Unto This Country a Stranger I Came (1:56)
- All of Her Answers to Me Were No (3:17)
- Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn (1:49)
- The Wagoner's Lad (1:47)
- Long Lonesome Road (2:18)
- The Butcher's Boy (2:20)
- The Old Maid's Song (1:54)
- Katy Cruel (2:12)
- Leatherwing Bat (2:11)
Credits
- Malin Quick - lyrics by
- Christer Rydell - music by