Frontier Ballads

Album by Pete Seeger

Frontier Ballads is an album by Pete Seeger collecting traditional American folk ballads centred on the 19th-century frontier, performed with voice, banjo and guitar. Its themes include pioneers, cowboys, outlaws and westward expansion within the Anglo-American folk tradition.
First released: 1954

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Fare You Well Polly (Wagoner's Lad)
    2:12
  2. 2.
    No Irish Need Apply
    1:55
  3. 3.
    Johnny Gray
    1:55
  4. 4.
    Greer County Bachelor (Starving to Death on My Government Claim)
    2:36
  5. 5.
    Cowboy Yodel
    0:51
  6. 6.
    The Trail to Mexico
    2:49
  7. 7.
    Joe Bowers
    3:00
  8. 8.
    Wake Up Jacob
    0:19
  9. 9.
    Cumberland Gap
    1:22
  10. 10.
    Erie Canal
    3:21
  11. 11.
    Blow the Man Down
    2:04
  12. 12.
    Ox Driver's Song
    1:55
  13. 13.
    The Tex-I-An Boys
    1:30
  14. 14.
    Sioux Indians
    3:42
  15. 15.
    Ground Hog
    3:49
  16. 16.
    Blue Mountain Lake
    2:48
  17. 17.
    Paddy Works on the Railroad
    2:25
  18. 18.
    The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
    1:38
  19. 19.
    Old Joe Clark
    3:56
  20. 20.
    My Sweetheart in the Mines
    0:28
  21. 21.
    Holler
    1:20
  22. 22.
    Arkansas Traveler
    2:42
  23. 23.
    When I Was Single
    1:18
  24. 24.
    Wondrous Love
    1:38
  25. 25.
    Play Party
    1:25
  26. 26.
    Rye Whiskey
    2:17
  27. 27.
    The Wayfaring Stranger
    1:13

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