PETE SEEGER: AMERICAN FAVORITE BALLADS, Vol. 3

Pete Seeger has long set the standard for interpreters of American traditional and topical songs. Armed with a silken, irresistible voice, bold faith in the power of song and a five-string banjo or twelve-string guitar, he offers up his music not just as entertainment, but as a means of making the world a better place. This third volume in a series of compilations of songs from the Folkways Records classic American Favorite Ballads series of the 1950s and 1960s again features Pete Seeger interpreting some of the classic songs from America’s history. These are the songs that children sing at camp and learn at school like their parents before them. This recording includes extensive notes on the history of these songs. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon.

Gypsy Davy
Deep Blue Sea
New River Train
St. James Hospital
E-Ri-E Canal
St. Louis Blues
Boll Weevil
The Girl I Left Behind
When I First Came to This Land
The Titanic
El-A-Noy
Lady of Carlysle
My Good Man
Golden Vanity
Ain't It a Shame
Swanee River
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
The Boys from County Mayo
No Irish Need Apply
Paddy Works on the Railroad
Arkansas Traveler
When I Was Single
Wond'rous Love
Ground Hog
Old Blue
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
Erie Canal