Gazette with Pete Seeger with banjo and 12 String Guitar

A Collection of Topical Songs, Old and New without Direction as to Content or Pressure

Folkways Records – FN 2501

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1958
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A01 Pretty Boy Floyd (2:46)
A02 Banks of Marble (3:17)
A03 The TVA Song (2:00)
A04 Martian Love Song (2:08)
A05 42 Kids (2:18)
A06 State of Arkansas (My Name is Terry Roberts) (2:07)
A07 Declaration of Independence (1:32)
A08 The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be (1:33)
A09 The Ballad of Sherman Wu (2:08)
A10 Roll On Columbia (3:37)
A11 The Sinking of the Reuben James (2:39)
B01 Then We'll Have Peace (2:09)
B02 The Scaler (1:20)
B03 Newspapermen (3:53)
B04 Talking Atom (Old Man Atom) (2:30)
B05 Teacher's Blues (2:33)
B06 The Demi Song (2:41)
B07 The Battle of Maxton Field (2:33)
B08 Doctor Freud (2:12)
B09 There is Mean Things Happening in This Land (1:55)
[Credits]
Pete Seeger (banjo/12 string guitar/vocals)
Producer and Liner Notes: Irwin Silber, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
Twenty topical songs demonstrate that American folk music is still a living, vital, creative force, and can say as much about life today as it does about the past. Pretty Boy Floyd may be dead and gone, but his ballad still provides commentary on the penal system; likewise, "Forty-Two Kids," about school overcrowding, remains relevant.