Rose & Briar: Death Love & Liberty American Ballad Rose & Briar: Death Love & Liberty American Ballad CD

THE ROSE AND THE BRIAR includes most of the songs treated in the Rose And the Briar Book. On this CD the saga of the American ballad unfolds much as the songs themselves appeared in the historical record, from classic recordings dating to the 1920s and 1930s to brand new recordings, made especially for this collection.

1. Barbary Allen - Jean Ritchie 2. Pretty Polly - the Coon Creek Girls 3. Ommie Wise - G. B. Grayson 4. Little Maggie - Snakefarm 5. Frankie - Mississippi John Hurt 6. Deliah's Gone - Koerner, Ray ; Glover 7. Wreck of the Old 97 - John Mellencamp 8. Dead Man's Curve - Jan ; Dean 9. Buddy Bolden's Blues (I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say) - Jelly Roll Morton 10. The Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley 11. Volver, Volver - Vincente Fernandez 12. The Foggy Foggy Dew - Burl Ives 13. Black, Brown and Beige, Part IV (Come Sunday) - Duke Ellington ; His Orchestra, Mahalia Jackson 14. El Paso - Marty Robbins 15. Trial of Mary Maguire - Bobby Patterson 16. Down from Dover - Dolly Parton 17. Sail Away - Randy Newman 18. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan 19. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen 20. Blackwatertown - the Handsome Family