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Pete Seeger - American Favorite Ballads Volume 1 (2008)
	Album details
	Label: Smithsonian Folkways    Ref#: folk-0114 Date: 2008   Category: folk Rating: 80     Genre: Folk
Notes/Reviews
Pete Seeger's life, music, and legacy encapsulate nearly a century of American history and culture. He has immersed himself in folk music and used it, like Johnny Appleseed, to "plant the seeds of a better tomorrow in the homes across our land." The songs in this collection of 139 American Favorite Ballads narrate tales of ordinary people and their extraordinary deeds, and show Pete at the crossroads of the past and the future putting his own stamp on America's folk song heritage while bequeathing it to generations to come. 5 CDs, each with its own booklet of extensive notes, nearly 6 hours of music!
Songs/Tracks
1.   John Henry  4:33 2.   Shenandoah  1:52 3.   Blue-Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)  2:37 4.   Black Girl  2:35 5.   Skip To My Lou  3:13 6.   The Big Rock Candy Mountain  3:10 7.   Clementine  3:07 8.   Yankee Doodle  1:42 9.   Home On The Range  1:53 10.   John Brown's Body  3:01 11.   Goodnight, Irene  3:45 12.   Swing Low, Sweet Chariot  2:39 13.   Oh, Susanna  1:19 14.   Wayfaring Stranger  1:18 15.   Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep  2:33 16.   Down In The Valley  3:47 17.   The Wabash Cannonball  3:07 18.   On Top Of Old Smoky  2:21 19.   Frankie And Jonny  4:29 20.   I Ride An Old Paint  3:26 21.   The Wreck Of The Railroad  1:55 22.   Wagoner's Lad  1:27 23.   Old Dan Tucker  2:16 24.   I've Been Working On The Railroad  1:29 25.   Cielito Lindo  2:36 26.   So Long, It's Been Good To know You (Dusty Old Dust)  3:24 27.   America The Beautiful  1:40 28.   This Land Is Your Land  2:51
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