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BCD - 17401 - Troubadours - Folk And The Roots Of American Music Part 1 (3 CD's)

Bear Family split their 12-disc American folk retrospective into quarters: four sets covering roughly 1936 through 1972, each following a loose chronology but assembled to make big, broader points about the music's evolution. Even though this first volume reaches back as far as 1928 for the Carter Family's "Wildwood Flower," most of the music on the first disc of this edition dates from 1940 and beyond, with much of it dedicated to Woody Guthrie, who was undeniably the pivotal figure of '40s and '50s folk. Think of this as the companion set to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Where that collection curated the songs of the old, weird America, the Troubadours of Folk series traces the evolution of folk from a communal art to a personal one, one where the focus was often on the singer as much as the song. On this first volume, the spotlight is on Guthrie -- who has 11 songs on the first disc, including "Do Re Mi," "I Ain't Got No Home," "Grand Coulee Dam," and "This Land Is Your Land" -- and his immediate followers, most of whom comprised the great folk scare of the '50s. This starts to surface on the second disc, which concentrates on Pete Seeger and the Weavers, but also finds space to slip in some early Terry Gilkyson and Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons," the latter showing how folk and country sometimes blurred the lines. Singers and songwriters alike comprise the third disc, which is devoted to the '50s: Cisco Houston, Jean Ritchie, and Oscar Brand are the heavy-hitters here, acts that often brought traditional songs into the mainstream, but Bob Gibson and Paul Clayton are the first signs that the spotlight was starting to shift from older songs to self-penned originals. In a sense, this is all a prelude to the explosion that takes place in the '60s in the wake of Bob Dylan, but this is both fascinating -- and entertaining -- history in its own right, history that's essential to the understanding of American song in the 20th century.

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   1. The Kingston Trio - Tom Dooley                          [03:06]
   2. The Kingston Trio - Scotch and Soda                     [02:35]
   3. The Kingston Trio - The M.T.A.                          [03:17]
   4. The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower                     [03:16]
   5. Leadbelly - The Midnight Special                        [03:05]
   6. Leadbelly - Western Plain (When I Was a Cowboy)         [02:46]
   7. Leadbelly - Rock Island Line                            [02:55]
   8. Carl Sandburg - The Horse Named Bill                    [02:15]
   9. Dixon Brothers - Weave Room Blues                       [02:33]
  10. Earl Robinson - Joe Hill                                [02:34]
  11. Earl Robinson - The House I Live In                     [03:06]
  12. Earl Robinson - The Frozen Logger                       [02:30]
  13. Josh White - One Meat Ball                              [03:12]
  14. Burl Ives - The Wayfaring Stranger                      [01:15]
  15. Woody Guthrie - Do Re Mi                                [02:37]
  16. Woody Guthrie - I Ain't Got No Home                     [02:47]
  17. Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd                        [03:10]
  18. Woody Guthrie - Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good to Know You)[03:08]
  19. Woody Guthrie - Babe O' Mine                            [02:53]
  20. Woody Guthrie - Grand Coulee Dam                        [02:14]
  21. Woody Guthrie - Ramblin' Round                          [02:19]
  22. Woody Guthrie - Hard Travelin'                          [02:42]
  23. Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land                  [02:42]
  24. Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston - Philadelphia Lawyer     [02:34]
  25. Woody Guthrie - I've Got to Know                        [05:32]
CD 2
1. The Almanac Singers - Hard, Ain't It Hard               [02:36]
   2. The Almanac Singers - Which Side Are You On             [02:07]
   3. The Almanac Singers - Union Maid                        [02:14]
   4. The Almanac Singers - Union Train                       [02:15]
   5. The Almanac Singers - Sinking of the Reuben James       [03:09]
   6. The Union Boys - U.A.W. - C.I.O.                        [02:08]
   7. The Union Boys - A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Anymore        [02:52]
   8. The Union Boys - Solidarity Forever                     [02:55]
   9. Sam Hinton - Old Man Atom (Talking Atomic Blues)        [03:14]
  10. Dick Blakeslee - Passing Through                        [01:59]
  11. Vern Partlow - Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People[03:43]
  12. Pete Seeger - Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues               [01:16]
  13. Pete Seeger - The Death of Harry Simms                  [01:46]
  14. Pete Seeger - No Irish Need Apply                       [02:18]
  15. Pete Seeger - Darling Corey                             [02:45]
  16. Terry Gilkyson - The Cry of the Wild Goose              [02:44]
  17. Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons                             [02:54]
  18. Merle Travis - Dark As a Dungeon                        [02:49]
  19. The Weavers - Wasn't That a Time                        [02:58]
  20. The Weavers - Banks of Marble                           [02:59]
  21. The Weavers - The Hammer Song                           [02:01]
  22. The Weavers - Good-Night Irene                          [03:17]
  23. The Weavers - So Long, It's Been Good to Know You       [03:09]
  24. Duncan, Lieberman, Sanders & Smith - Die Gedanken Sind Frei[01:22[br]CD 3
1. Cisco Houston - Nine Hundred Miles                      [03:34]
   2. Cisco Houston - Diamond Joe                             [02:32]
   3. Cisco Houston - Great American Bum                      [01:45]
   4. Jean Ritchie - Jubilee                                  [02:14]
   5. Jean Ritchie - Dear Companion                           [02:05]
   6. Oscar Brand - Bootlegger's Song                         [02:37]
   7. Oscar Brand - Around Her Neck                           [02:11]
   8. Oscar Brand & Jean Ritchie - Paper of Pins              [02:22]
   9. Cynthia Gooding - Go 'Way from My Window                [02:32]
  10. Ed McCurdy - John Brown's Body                          [01:59]
  11. Will Holt - Raspberries, Strawberries (Ah! Les Fraises et Les Framboises)[03:14]
  12. Will Holt - The M.T.A.                                  [02:42]
  13. Bob Gibson - Delia                                      [03:38]
  14. Bob Gibson - Abilene                                    [02:26]
  15. Paul Clayton - Gotta Travel On                          [03:57]
  16. Paul Clayton - Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I'm Gone[02:59]
  17. Paul Clayton - Pay Day at Coal Creek                    [03:54]
  18. The Gateway Singers - The Ballad of Sigmund Freud       [02:40]
  19. The Gateway Singers - Come to the Dance                 [02:28]
  20. The Easy Riders - Marianne                              [02:24]
  21. The Easy Riders - Strolling Blues                       [02:12]
  22. The Easy Riders - Green Fields                          [02:56]
  23. The Easy Riders - Kari Waits for Me                     [02:14]
  24. Vince Martin & the Tarriers - Cindy Oh Cindy            [02:52]
  25. The Tarriers - The Banana Boat Song                     [02:57]
  26. The Tarriers - Those Brown Eyes                         [02:48]

Playing Time.........: 01:10:24
Total Size...........: 161,27 MB

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