This collection reminds US that the ballad's purpose, first and foremost, is to tell a story. These songs narrate tales of ordinary people-hoboes and lovers and sailors-and their extraordinary deeds...
Ballads fuse the arts of music and storytelling.3 Pete Seeger, an American folk hero and icon of the great "folk revival of the 1950s & 1960 s, hand selecton some of his favorite American ballads...
Seeger,Pete American Favorite Ballads 3 CD1. Gypsy Davy 2. Deep Blue Sea 3. New River Train 4. St. James Hospital 5. E-Ri-E Canal 6. St. Louis Blues 7. Boll Weevil 8. The Girl I Left Behind 9. When I...
These songs have been part of the fabric of America for a half century or more - and these five volumes of folk ballads recorded by Pete in the '50s and '60s were an integral part of our folk revival...