American Industrial Ballads

Songs of struggle which emerged from the coal mines, textile mills and acres of farmland, and spoke of issues important to the American laborer. Twenty-four songs written about the unprecedented industrialization of the 19th century, including Peg and Awl, The Farmer is the Man, and Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues. Irwin Silber's notes provide a history of labor folk song and its role in American popular music. "Seeger's straightforward, sincere singing is accompanied by sparse, effective banjo and guitar...an important reissue." — Sing Out

Track Listing

101	Peg and Awl	Pete Seeger	02:29
102	The Blind Fiddler	Pete Seeger	01:17
103	Buffalo Skinners	Pete Seeger	02:44
104	Eight-Hour Day	Pete Seeger	01:00
105	Hard Times in the Mill	Pete Seeger	02:16
106	Roll Down the Line	Pete Seeger	03:15
107	A Hayseed like Me	Pete Seeger	01:16
108	The Farmer is the Man (Who Feeds Them All)	Pete Seeger	01:43
109	Come All You Hardy Miners	Pete Seeger	02:00
110	He Lies in the American Land	Pete Seeger	02:01
111	Casey Jones	Pete Seeger	02:20
112	Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine	Pete Seeger	03:41
113	Cotton Mill Colic	Pete Seeger	01:41
114	Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat	Pete Seeger	01:58
115	Mill Mother's Lament	Pete Seeger	01:37
116	Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch	Pete Seeger	02:11
117	Beans, Bacon, and Gravy	Pete Seeger	02:56
118	The Death of Harry Simms	Pete Seeger	02:14
119	Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues	Pete Seeger	01:09
120	The Ballad of Barney Graham	Pete Seeger	01:48
121	My Children are Seven in Number	Pete Seeger	03:59
122	Raggedy	Pete Seeger	02:32
123	Pittsburgh Town	Pete Seeger	01:30
124	Sixty Percent	Pete Seeger	01:00