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EU-only three CD collection in fold-out digipak with 152-page booklet (English language), in the one hundred years that Folk music has been recorded in the United States, the tradition has embraced ballads mostly new, but some transplanted from Europe, political statements, personal introspection, and much more. Now the story is here in this special triple disc collection. This first set covers the period from the 1920s through to 1957. All the names you'd expect are here The Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, the Weavers, Lead Belly, Cisco Houston, and many more. Here are the original versions of songs that have become classics and rallying cries 'Wildwood Flower', 'Midnight Special', 'Rock Island Line', 'Wayfaring Stranger', 'So Long It's Been Good to Know You', 'This Land Is Your Land', '16 Tons', '900 Miles', 'Delia', and many more. Album Tracks 1. I Never Will Marry - the Carter Family 2. Little Darling, Pal of Mine - the Carter Family 3. Wildwood Flower - the Carter Family 4. The Midnight Special - Lead Belly 5. Western Plain (When I Was a Cowboy) - Lead Belly 6. Rock Island Line - Lead Belly 7. The Horse Named Bill - Carl Sandburg 8. Weave Room Blues - the Dixon Brothers 9. Joe Hill - Earl Robinson 10. The House I Live in - Earl Robinson 11. The Frozen Logger - Earl Robinson 12. One Meat Ball - Josh White 13. The Wayfaring Stranger- Burl Ives 14. Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie 15. I Ain't Got No Home - Woody Guthrie 16. Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie 17. Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good to Know You)- Woody Guthrie 18. Babe O'Mine - Woody Guthrie 19. Grand Coulee Dam - Woody Guthrie 20. Ramblin' Round - Woody Guthrie 21. Hard Travelin' - Woody Guthrie 22. This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie 23. Philadelphia Lawyer - Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston 24. I've Got to Know - Woody Guthrie 25. Ha
