American Favorite Ballads

by Pete Seeger

American Favorite Ballads cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1957
  • Label: Folkways
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 12:07
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Functioning as a cornerstone of the emerging folk revival, the iconic banjoist and singer presents an essential collection of foundational American roots music. The stark, unadorned acoustic performances preserved crucial historical narratives, labor songs, and campfire standards for a new, politically conscious collegiate audience. The historically vital release played a massive role in shaping the repertoire of the 1960s acoustic music explosion.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Down In The Valley (3:46)
  2. Mary Don't You Weep (2:31)
  3. The Blue-Tail Fly (2:35)
  4. Yankee Doodle (1:41)
  5. Cielito Lindo (2:35)
  6. Buffalo Gals (2:22)
  7. The Wabash Cannon Ball (3:05)
  8. So Long, It's Been Good To know You (Dusty Old Dust) (3:22)
  9. Wagoner's Lad (1:25)
  10. The Big Rock Candy Mountain (3:09)
  11. The Wreck Of The Old '97 (1:53)
  12. On Top Of Old Smoky (2:19)
  13. I Ride An Old Paint (3:25)
  14. Frankie And Jonny (4:28)
  15. Old Dan Tucker (2:14)
  16. Skip To My Lou (3:12)
  17. Home On The Range (1:52)

Credits

  • Malin Quick - lyrics by
  • Christer Rydell - music by

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