Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. We Shall Not Be Moved - Pete Seeger
2. The Big Rock Candy Mountain - Burl Ives
3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - The Weavers
4. Blue Tail Fly - Leadbelly
5. This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
6. I Gave My Love A Cherry (The Riddle Song) - Josh White
7. So Long It\x{2019}s Been Good To Know You - The Weavers
8. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Leadbelly
9. House Of The Rising Sun - Woody Guthrie
10. John Henry - Josh White
11. On Top Of Old Smokey - The Weavers
12. Frog Went A Courting - Pete Seeger
13. Cowboy\x{2019}s Lament (Streets Of Laredo) - Burl Ives
14. Rock Island Line - Leadbelly
15. Wanderings - Josh White
16. Grand Coulee Dam - Woody Guthrie
17. If I Had A Hammer - The Weavers
18. Worried Man Blues - Burl Ives
19. The Fox - Pete Seeger
20. Santy Anno - Odetta
21. I Ride An Old Paint - The Almanac Singers
22. Along The Colorado Trail - The Weavers
23. Mule Skinner Blues - Ramblin\x{2019} Jack Elliott
24. Darlin\x{2019} Cory - Burl Ives
25. Goodnight Irene - Leadbelly.

Disc 2:

1. Alabama Bound - Odetta
2. Billy Boy - Burl Ives
3. Bring A Little Water Sylvie - The Weavers
4. Brown Eyes - Woody Guthrie
5. Old Blue - Ramblin\x{2019} Jack Elliott
6. The Ballad Of Rodger Young - Burl Ives
7. Jack O\x{2019}Diamonds - Odetta
8. Sometime - Josh White with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
9. John Hardy - Leadbelly
10. Fare You Well Polly - Pete Seeger
11. Ezekiel Saw The Wheel - Cisco Houston
12. Pastures Of Plenty - Woody Guthrie
13. Lonesome Traveller - The Weavers
14. He Lies In The American Land - Pete Seeger
15. Old Dan Tucker - Burl Ives
16. Midnight Special - Leadbelly
17. Another Man Done Gone - Odetta
18. Like A Natural Man - Josh White
19. Pretty Boy Floyd - Ramblin\x{2019} Jack Elliott
20. Ox Driver\x{2019}s Song - Pete Seeger
21. Bury Me Beneath The Weeping Willow - Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston
22. Go Tell Aunt Rhody - Burl Ives
23. Erie Canal - Burl Ives
24. Glory, Glory - Odetta
25. Wasn\x{2019}t That A Time? - The Weavers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1135 in Music
• Released on: 2008-01-01
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Customer Reviews

Start of an era
This album represents a nostalgia trip into my earliest interest in 'folk' - as represented by the folk songs I heard on the radio. 'This Land' by Woody Guthrie, "Big Rock Candy Mountain' by Burl Ives and 'If I Had A Hammer' - although I think it was the Trini Lopez version which was played. This anthology covers the greats of the era, not only Guthrie and Ives but Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Cisco Houston, Odetta and of course Leadbelly
I grew up learning basic guitar from Alan Lomax's 'Anthology of American Folk' and all the old favourites are here, 'John Henry' ' Santo Anno' "I Ride An Old Paint' 'St james Infirmary, "Pretty Boy Floyd' 'John Hardy' 'Goodnight Irene' and 'Erie Canal'; together with a host of other material which I have learned to love over the years including Guthrie's version of 'House of the Rising Sun'.

As an introduction to the early years of the 'folk revolution' it represents the songs and the artists who predated the Dylan years, the songs and people who influenced him, many of the songs having origins lost in time (many derived from material existing prior to the settlement of America) and others of comparatively recent origin, such as much of Guthrie's work.

I thoroughly recommend this compilation as it provides a basis for so much of what came later, a collection of material from which the folk revival of the 60's sprang.

a good introduction
This was a happy find for me. It has some of the leading American folk artists on it such as Pete Seger, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie and Odetta.
I recommend it if you do not know a lot about American folk music and would like to know more about it in the different eras.
I've been enjoying listening to it while I've been working but will no doubt become part of my summer listening for those long lazy days.

It's OK
Nice enough. As long as it stays at a reasonable price I'd still recommend it, but one is left with the feeling that royalty payments influenced the choice, limiting it considerably. That goes for all the collections I have by this record production house. Budget has to be the tag, but as I say, pleasant enough. Nothing exciting though.