Classic American Ballads - Classic American Ballads (CD)

Born of the British ballad, it's American offspring was the blank canvas for all type of tale, the more calamitous or scandalous, the better. Jesse James and Billy the Kid, train wrecks and hurricanes, the Titanic and Tom Dooley, fatal lovers' quarrels and foiling the devil, all and more were normal fare, served up in a song. Classic American Ballads is 25 tracks of time-worn tragedy drawn from the deep fount of the Smithsonian Folkways archives. 74 minutes, 40-page booklet with extensive notes and photos.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Banks of the Ohio - Doc Watson and Bill Monroe
2. Blue Mountain Lake - Pete Seeger
3. Claude Allen - Hobart Smith
4. Cole Younger - Dock Boggs
5. Cowboy's Lament (Streets of Laredo) - Buck Ramsey
6. Boll Weevil - Sam Hinton
7. Duncan and Brady - Lead Belly
8. Floyd Collins - Paul Clayton
9. Frankie and Johnny - Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt
10. John Henry - John Jackson
11. Jesse James - Sis Cunningham, Mike Millins, and Wes Houston
12. Billy the Kid - Woody Guthrie
13. The Death of the Lawson Family - Glen Neaves
14. Naomi Wise - Doug Wallin
15. Pearl Bryan - Bruce Buckley
16. Sam Bass - Hermes Nye
17. Springfield Mountain - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
18. Tom Dooley - Glen Neaves, Roscoe Russell, Ivor Melton, Warren Brown, and Ted Lundy
19. Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail - Cisco Houston
20. Young Charlotte - Pete Seeger
21. Wasn't That a Mighty Storm? - the Tex-I-An Boys
22. Zebra Dun - Joan O'Bryant
23. The Titanic - Pink Anderson
24. The Louisville Burglar - the Iron Mountain String Band
25. The F.F.V. (Engine 143) - Annie Watson