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1.StopThis Land Is Your Land – Woody Guthrie 02:19
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2.StopWhere Have All the Flowers Gone – Pete Seeger 02:04
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3.StopHe's Got the Whole World in His Hands – Odetta 01:57
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4.StopBig Rock Candy Mountain [Live] – Burl Ives 01:55
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5.StopCindy Oh Cindy – Vince Martin & the Tarriers 02:55
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6.StopThe Banana Boat Song (Day-O) – The Tarriers 03:01
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7.StopA Worried Man – The Kingston Trio 02:53
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8.StopJohn Henry, the Steel Driving Man – The Limeliters 02:11
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9.StopGreenfields – The Brothers Four 03:04
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10.StopBlowin' in the Wind – Chad Mitchell Trio 02:35
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11.StopGreenback Dollar – Hoyt Axton 03:17
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12.StopOne By One – Barry McGuire 02:25
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13.StopSaturday Night – The New Christy Minstrels 02:22
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14.StopTwo-Ten, Six-Eighteen (Doesn't Anybody Know My Name) [Live][#] – Jimmie F. Rodgers, Jimmie Rodgers, Rod McKuen 03:08
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15.StopI'll Be There – Phil Ochs 02:10
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16.StopTurn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) – Judy Collins 03:40
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17.StopBound for Higher Ground [#] – The New Journeymen 02:03
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18.StopAdvice to Folk Singers – Rod McKuen 02:12
About six months after the release of the early-'60s folk boom satire film A Mighty Wind, along came this rather similarly titled collection of folk revival relics, most from the first half of the 1960s (though a few are from the mid- to late '50s, and a Woody Guthrie 1940s version of "This Land Is Your Land" leads off the disc). Some of this stuff is indeed the sort of wholesome folk revival stuff lampooned in A Mighty Wind: the Kingston Trio ("A Worried Man"), the Brothers Four ("Greenfields"), the New Christy Minstrels ("Saturday Night"), the Limeliters ("John Henry, the Steel Driving Man"), and the Chad Mitchell Trio (a 1962 version of "Blowin' in the Wind" that predates Bob Dylan's release of the song). But this anthology's scope is broader than that, also including earthier, more venerated legends like Pete Seeger ("Where Have All the Flowers Gone"), Odetta ("He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"), Phil Ochs ("I'll Be There," recorded around 1963 but not issued until the late '80s), and Judy Collins (her pre-Byrds version of Seeger's "Turn Turn Turn"). There are also the curious, nearly forgotten 1950s Top Ten hits by Vince Martin ("Cindy Oh Cindy") and the Tarriers ("Banana Boat Song," though Harry Belafonte's simultaneous hit version was much better). Of most interest to collectors, perhaps, are the more obscure tracks, including Hoyt Axton's 1962 version of his composition "Greenback Dollar" (covered for a hit by the Kingston Trio), Barry McGuire's 1963 solo single "One By One" (penned by Rod McKuen), and McKuen's own unfunny satire "Advice to Folk Singers." Overall, it's a reasonably solid roundup of some of the more popular folk revival songs and performers, though of course it's missing too many big names and hits to be anointed as the best single-disc best-of for the genre. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
- Genre: Folk
- Subgenre: Traditional Folk, Folk/Country Rock
- Category Folk-Pop, Traditional Folk, Folk Revival
- Release Date: September 30, 2003
- Artist: In the Wind: The Folk Music Collection
- Additional Artist: Various artists collection