American Industrial Ballads

Album by Pete Seeger

Released by Folkways Records in 1956, American Industrial Ballads presents Pete Seeger performing American folk material centred on industrial labour, workplace life and union organising. It sits within the labour and protest folk tradition.
First released: 1956

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Peg and Awl
    2:29
  2. 2.
    The Blind Fiddler
    1:17
  3. 3.
    The Buffalo Skinners
    2:44
  4. 4.
    Eight-hour Day
    1:00
  5. 5.
    Hard Times in the Mill
    2:15
  6. 6.
    Roll Down the Line
    3:15
  7. 7.
    Hayseed Like Me
    1:16
  8. 8.
    The Farmer Is the Man
    1:43
  9. 9.
    Come All You Hardy Miners
    2:00
  10. 10.
    He Lies in the American Land
    2:01
  11. 11.
    Casey Jones
    2:20
  12. 12.
    Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
    3:41
  13. 13.
    Cotton Mill Colic
    1:40
  14. 14.
    Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat
    1:58
  15. 15.
    Mill Mother's Lament
    1:37
  16. 16.
    Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
    2:11
  17. 17.
    Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
    2:56
  18. 18.
    The Death of Harry Simms
    2:14
  19. 19.
    Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
    1:09
  20. 20.
    Ballad of Barney Graham
    1:48
  21. 21.
    My Children Are Seven in Number
    3:59
  22. 22.
    Raggedy
    2:32
  23. 23.
    Pittsburgh Town
    1:30
  24. 24.
    Sixty Per Cent
    1:00

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