Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads (Dover Books on Music)

Good writing and organization T-Townie I like the different sections and the back stories for the songs.. Joanna Dillon said good volume songs are rare. it's a great album to have only the real afficionado would know the songs though.

Songs include spirituals, hollers, game songs, lullabies, courting songs, chain-gang work songs, Cajun airs, breakdowns, and many more. Judith Tick, a scholar and award-winning author, provides a new fact-filled Introduction; notes on tune origins, two indexes, and an extensive bibliography round out this archive of some 200 authentic folk songs and ballads.. This sequel to the Lomaxes' widely acclaimed American Ballads and Folk Songs includes melodies and words for tunes from all parts of the country