Darling Corey/Goofing-Off Suite

This reissue combines two early 1950s LPs that highlight the instrumental virtuosity of Pete Seeger. In Darling Corey, he paid homage to the mountain musicians whose banjo styles he adopted; in Goofing-Off Suite, he took the banjo into new musical territory and blazed a trail many have followed. Thirty tracks of brilliant musicianship. "Originally released as 10-inch albums...Corey and Goofing-Off Suite helped launch a generation of pickers and singers.... Grand testimony to the breadth and variety of American folk song and style.... Wonderful vintage examples of that curious mix of casual personability and determined virtuosity that have made Pete Seeger our most respected—and best liked—folk personality for over half a century." — New England Folk Almanac

Track Listing

101	John Riley	Pete Seeger	02:26
102	Risselty-Rosselty	Pete Seeger	01:12
103	Devilish Mary	Pete Seeger	01:18
104	Come All You Fair and Tender Maids	Pete Seeger	02:31
105	East Virginia	Pete Seeger	02:08
106	I Had a Wife	Pete Seeger	00:37
107	Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy	Pete Seeger	00:56
108	Darling Corey	Pete Seeger	02:43
109	Four Banjo Pieces: Fly Around My Blue Eyed Girl / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark (medley)	Pete Seeger	02:37
110	Jam on Jerry's Rock	Pete Seeger	01:39
111	Penny's Farm	Pete Seeger	01:49
112	Danville Girl	Pete Seeger	01:32
113	Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies	Pete Seeger	01:30
114	Goofing-Off Suite: Opening Theme	Pete Seeger	01:11
115	Cindy	Pete Seeger	00:57
116	Blue Skies	Pete Seeger	02:25
117	The Girl I Left Behind Me	Pete Seeger	01:16
118	Bach, J.S.: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring	Pete Seeger	01:02
119	Beethoven, Ludwig v.: Duet from Symphony No. 7	Pete Seeger	02:06
120	Beethoven, Ludwig v.: Chorale from Symphony No. 9	Pete Seeger	01:26
121	Stravinsky, Igor: Russian Folk Themes and Yodel	Pete Seeger	02:12
122	Grieg, Edvard: Anitra's Dance / Brandy Leave Me Alone	Pete Seeger	01:50
123	Opening Theme (Reprise)	Pete Seeger	01:18
124	The Mexican Blues	Pete Seeger	01:59
125	Time's A-Getting Hard	Pete Seeger	02:22
126	Empty Pocket Blues (Barrel of Money Blues)	Pete Seeger	01:32
127	Sally My Dear	Pete Seeger	03:31
128	Oh, Liza, Poor Gal	Pete Seeger	01:47
129	Sally Ann	Pete Seeger	01:28
130	Woody's Rag	Pete Seeger	01:29