American Industrial Ballads

If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle Pete Seeger is a national treasure, a living American institution. Unfortunately in our fast-paced world we often forget about our treasures, our institutions, and our heritage. This wonderful collection, culled from his massive library of work with Folkways Records, is, if nothi...	American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 In 1957, at the dawn of the urban folk revival, Moses Asch's Folkways label issued the first of Pete Seeger's American Favorite Ballads series. Marketing these albums to schools and libraries, Folkways served to document a range of great American folk songs that had remained p...	American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2	We Shall Overcome: Complete Carnegie Hall Concert Pete Seeger, who began recording in the early 1940s, is perhaps the most influential figure in the American folk revival, a walking repository of song who's had an immense influence in popularizing folk music with mainstream audiences. The 2 CD We Shall Overcome is an expanded ve...	American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3 Pete Seeger has long set the standard for interpreters of American traditional and topical songs. Armed with a silken, irresistible voice, bold faith in the power of song and a five-string banjo or twelve-string guitar, he offers up his music not just as entertainment, but as a m...
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A Great Selection
Pete Seeger is a favorite from my youth. I received this as a gift from my wife and was very happy.

very good
I have enjoyed these ballads. It is a refreshing change from everyday music.

I'd give it 100 stars
This is one of the greatest folk albums ever made. It comes with very informative liner notes and the order of songs moves through historical time. The music is amazing with great banjo picking and vocals performed by Pete Seeger. The songs almost all focus on labor issues, which is very inspiring and gives you a sense of history. This is my favorite Pete Seeger album, and if you want the best Seeger music you'll find, buy this album.

Still a great album, always an important album
This is a classic album, listened to by generations of people interested in learning something of value about folk music (lower case folk music). I have no doubt that most of the listeners to it have been informed and entertained, as I was when I stumbled on to it some 40 years ago. Seeger is both musician and scholar, and it's hardly a surprise that the Smithsonian has chosen to reissue this record. It was of interest when it first came out because it was one of the few records of the time that accurately presented this music withour flash or fluff. Today, it's equally of interest as one of the records that inspired the "folk revival". It may not knock your socks off, but if you pay attention to the words and the music, you will understand why this album and this music remain so important. The review by "A music fan from Brookings, SD" who gave it 2 stars and said that there were no ballads in it is curious. While it is true that a better title might have been "American Industrial Ballads and Songs", there are certainly many ballads on it, including "Buffalo Skinners", generally regarded as the greatest purely American ballad. I don't know what "Brookings, SD" has in mind by saying "I am a big fan of Folk Ballads", but you will find some of the best American lower case "folk ballads" right here, the genuine ariticle. Even more puzzling is "This album consists of up-beat songs that really don't have any heart behind them...", surely the first time such has been said of this album - anyone who thinks "Buffalo Skinners" is up-beat must crawl through the Mojave on hands and knees for jollies. This album is full of heart - and ballads - as anyone who has ever listened to Seeger would expect. It has earned and kept its reputation, and will amply reward anyone willing to listen to music requiring some thought.

worth all four of its stars!
for starters, this album is musically brilliant, and pete seeger is no three-chord dingleberry. now, i'll grant you, i don't like all the songs on the album, but at least three out of four are excellent, and considering my tastes, where if one out of ten cuts it then i'll consider the album a success, then this is pretty good. many of these songs are touching, powerful, musically adept...and besides all that, add music to a historical time that's all too easily forgotten. and by the way, if you play guitar and have a halfway decent ear, you can play these songs too. just the other day i was playing "the farmer is the man" to myself. and "buddy won't you roll on down the line"? that's just a beaut. pete seeger is talented!