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The Folk Box

Various Artists

Initial release : 1964

Elektra EKL 9001

A 4 LP box set with 48 page booklet.

Tracks and performers

Side A: Songs of the Old World and Migration to the New;

  • Greensleeves - Cynthia Gooding
  • Down In The Coal Mine - Ian Campbell Folk Group
  • Geordie - Ewan MacColl
  • Whiskey In The Jar - Irish Ramblers
  • Irish Famine Song - Susan Reed
  • Gypsy Laddie - Ed McCurdy
  • Tae The Weavers - Jean Redpath
  • African Traveling Song
  • Navajo Night Chant
  • Skada At America - Gene Bluestein
Side B: Settling, Exploring and Growing in the New World;
  • When First Unto This Country - New Lost City Ramblers
  • Springfield Mountain - Susan Reed
  • Good Old Colony Times - Ed McCurdy
  • Jefferson And Liberty - Oscar Brand
  • Darling Cory - Pete Seeger
  • Jesse James - Jack Elliott
  • Rock Island Line - Leadbelly
  • Oregon Trail - Woody Guthrie
  • Swannanda Tunnel - Erik Darling
  • Kentucky Moonshine - Ed McCurdy
  • Green Green Rocky Road - Alabama School Children
Side C: Work Song;
  • Pick A Bale Of Cotton - Leadbelly
  • Haul On The Bowline - Seafarers Chorus
  • Paddy Works On The Railway - Pete Seeger
  • I Ride An Old Paint - Harry Jackson
  • Zebra Dun - Cisco Houston
  • Field Holler - Horace Sprott
  • Linin' Track - Koerner, Ray & Glover
  • Now Your Man Done Gone - Willer Turner
  • Timber - Josh White
  • Grizzly Bear - Negro Prisoners
Side D: Many Worshippers, One God;
  • Mary Had A Baby - Marilyn Child & Glenn Yarbrough
  • Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin Bed - Josh White
  • Dark Was The Night - Blind Willie Johnson
  • Twelve Gates To The City - Judy Collins
  • A Zemer - Theodore Bikel
  • Wayfaring Stranger - Glenn Yarbrough
  • Simple Gifts - Ed McCurdy
  • Meetin' At The Building - Leadbelly
  • You Can Tell the World - Bob Gibson
  • Down By The Riverside Christian Tabernacle Church
Side E: Country Music: From Ballads to Bluegrass;
  • Sligo Reel, Mountain Road - Willy Clancy
  • Old Joe Clark - Eric Weissberg
  • Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley
  • Shady Grove - Tom Paley
  • Flop-Eared Mule - Eric Weissberg & Marshall Brickman
  • Nottamun Town - Jean Ritchie
  • Amazing Grace - Doc Watson and others
  • Cripple Creek - Doc Watson
  • Pretty Polly - The Dillards
  • Yellow Rose Of Texas - George Pegram & Walter Parham
  • Green Corn - Dián And The Greenbriar Boys
  • Old Man At The Mill - The Dillards
Side F: Nothing But The Blues;
  • Lost John - Sonny Terry
  • I Wonder When I'll Get To Be Called a Man - Big Bill Broonzy
  • Black Snake Moan - Leadbelly
  • See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson
  • House Of The Rising Sun - Hally Wood
  • France Blues - Mark Spoelstra
  • Carter Blues - New Lost City Ramblers
  • Slappin' On My Black Cat Bone - Dave Ray
  • Don't Leave Me Here - Dave Van Ronk
  • Southern Exposure - Josh White
Side G: Of War, Love, and Hope;
  • John Brown's Body - Ed McCurdy
  • Virginia's Bloody Soil - Frank Warner
  • Two Brothers - Theodore Bikel
  • Masters of War - Judy Collins
  • Blow The Candles Out - Theodore Bikel
  • Love Is Teasin' - Jean Redpath
  • Sally Ann - Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson
  • Little Devils - Jean Ritchie
  • The Hammer Song - Limeliters
  • This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
Side H: Broadside, Topical Songs, Protest Songs;
  • Which Side Are You On? - Pete Seeger, Almanac Singers With Audience
  • No Depression In Heaven - New Lost City Ramblers
  • Talking Dust Bowl - Woody Guthrie
  • Black Brown And White - Big Bill Broonzy
  • Talking Atomic Blues - Oscar Brand
  • Girl From The North Country - Hamilton Camp
  • The Dove - Judy Collins
  • High Sheriff Of Hazard - Tom Paxton
  • The Thresher - Phil Ochs
  • We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger
Credits

  • Compiled and annotated by Robert Sheldon
  • Produced by Jac Holzman
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