Frontiers

This album, created for the Scholastic Book Service, features songs and stories about the American frontier. The recording opens, in fact, with “The Frontier,” a 15-minute medley of songs from the Folkways recordings library. Among the songs is the children’s classic counting song “This Old Man” and original compositions sung by Keith Clark for his 1957 album Ballads of La Salle County, Illinois. The recording includes sounds made by various animals commonly found in frontier areas and soundtracks of various weather events such as thunderstorms and flash floods. Lyrics and background information for all tracks are included in the liner notes.

Track Listing

101	The Pioneer Bill Bonyun, Pete Seeger, Logan English, Keith Clark	15:07
102	The Indian Fort Wingate Indian School children, Keith Clark, Louie Nine Pipe, Ambrose Roanhorse, Chester Roanhorse, Tom Roanhorse	06:07
103	The Cowboy Frontier folk singers and a narrator	03:55
201	The Bent County Bachelor Sam Hinton	00:55
202	Buffalo Skinners Hermes Nye	02:03
203	Sacramento Logan English	01:30
204	Sioux Indians Pete Seeger	03:40
205	St. George Sam Hinton	01:21
206	The Tex-I-An Boys Pete Seeger	01:31
207	Wild Bill Hickock Keith Clark	03:15
208	Pilgrim and a Stranger Sam Hinton	02:32
209	Go 'Long L'il Dogies Robert Emmett	01:44