About This Item
Like Joan O'Bryant's previous Folkways recording, Folksongs and Ballads of Kansas, this album presents folk songs geographically close to O'Bryant's heart. Most of the ballads included here are versions from Kansas, Arkansas, and Missouri, and several were collected through the University of Arkansas Folklore Research Project. Album Tracks 1. Single Girl 2. The Stern Old Bachelor 3. Life Is a Toil 4. The Promised Land 5. The House Carpenter's Wife 6. The Trail to Mexico 7. The Lily of the West 8. The Cuckoo 9. I'm on My Way 10. A Sailor's Life 11. Keep Your Hand on the Plow 12. The Maiden on the Plains 13. The Soldier's Wife 14. Marble Town 15. The Texas Rangers 16. Tom Sherman's Barroom
