November 4, 2018

Pete Seeger: American Industrial Ballads

Folkways Records FH 5251

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1956
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A01 Peg And Awl (2:29)
A02 The Blind Fiddler (1:17)
A03 Buffalo Skinners (2:44)
A04 Eight Hour Day (1:00)
A05 Hard Times In The Mill (2:16)
A06 Roll Down The Line (3:15)
A07 Hayseed Like Me (1:16)
A08 The Farmer Is The Man (1:43)
A09 Come All You Hardy Miners (2:00)
A10 He Lies In The American Land (2:01)
A11 Casey Jones (2:20)
A12 Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine (3:41)
A13 Weave Room Blues (0:40)
B01 Cotton Mill Colic (1:41)
B02 Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat (1:58)
B03 Mill Mother's Lament (1:37)
0B4 Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch (2:11)
B05 Beans, Bacon And Gravy (2:56)
B06 The Death Of Harry Simms (2:14)
B07 Winnsboro Cotton Mills Blues (1:48)
B08 Ballad Of Barney Graham (1:48)
B09 My Children Are Seven In Number (3:59)
B10 Raggedy, Raggedy Are We (2:32)
B11 Pittsburgh Town (1:30)
B12 60% Parity (1:00)
[Credits]
Pete Seeger (banjo/guitar/vocals)
Recorder & Producer: Moses Asch, Liner Notes:Irwin Silber, Engineer: Alan Yoshida, Designer: Carol Hardy
[Notes]
Songs of struggle which emerged from the coal mines, textile mills and acres of farmland, and spoke of issues important to the American laborer. Twenty-four songs written about the unprecedented industrialization of the 19th century, including Peg and Awl, The Farmer is the Man, and Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues. Irwin Silber's notes provide a history of labor folk song and its role in American popular music. "Seeger's straightforward, sincere singing is accompanied by sparse, effective banjo and guitar...an important reissue." — Sing Out

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