Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways

Various Artists

Born of the British ballad, its 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.

This is the 24th release in the Smithsonian Folkways Classic Series. Click here to learn more about this enjoyable introduction to the diverse repertoire of American music.

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Track Listing

101	Banks of the Ohio	Doc Watson and Bill Monroe	3:32
102	Blue Mountain Lake	Pete Seeger	2:47
103	Claude Allen	Hobart Smith	3:50
104	Cole Younger	Dock Boggs	1:50
105	Cowboy’s Lament (Streets of Laredo)	Buck Ramsey	3:21
106	Boll Weevil	Sam Hinton	2:12
107	Duncan and Brady	Lead Belly	1:08
108	Floyd Collins	Paul Clayton	3:27
109	Frankie and Johnny	Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt	6:39
110	John Henry	John Jackson	3:22
111	Jesse James	Sis Cunningham, Mike Millius, and Wes Houston	3:51
112	Billy the Kid	Woody Guthrie	2:04
113	The Death of the Lawson Family	Glen Neaves	1:54
114	Naomi Wise	Doug Wallin	3:06
115	Pearl Bryan	Bruce Buckley	2:54
116	Sam Bass	Hermes Nye	1:59
117	Springfield Mountain	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	2:31
118	Tom Dooley	Glen Neaves, Roscoe Russell, Ivor Melton, Warren Brown, Ted Lundy	2:11
119	Tying a Knot in the Devil’s Tail	Cisco Houston	2:14
120	Young Charlotte	Pete Seeger	4:05
121	Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm?	The Tex-i-an Boys	2:41
122	Zebra Dun	Joan O'Bryant	2:32
123	The Titanic	Pink Anderson	2:52
124	The Louisville Burglar	The Iron Mountain String Band	3:09
125	The F.F.V. (Engine 143)	Annie Watson	3:56