• Track Listing

Ranging from the ’20s to 1957, the first set in this series features the great early icons of American folk and the original versions of dozens of classics. A 152-page booklet joins 75 tracks: "I Never Will Marry," "Wildwood Flower" Carter Family; "The Midnight Special," "Rock Island Line" Lead Belly; "One Meat Ball" Josh White; "The Wayfaring Stranger" Burl Ives; "Do Re Mi," "Pretty Boy Floyd," "This Land Is Your Land," "Grand Coulee Dam" Woody Guthrie; "The Death of Harry Simms," "Darling Corey" Pete Seeger; "Sixteen Tons" Merle Travis; "Wasn’t That a Time," "Goodnight Irene" Weavers; "900 Miles," "Diamond Joe" Cisco Houston; "John Brown’s Body" Ed McCurdy; "Gotta Travel On" Paul Clayton; "The Horse Named Bill" Carl Sandburg; "Joe Hill" Earl Robinson; "Jubille" Jean Ritchie; "Marianne" Easy Riders; "The Cry of the Wild Goose" Terry Gilkyson, and more! Bear Family.