V/A- Troubadours (Folk And The Roots Of American Music Part 3)

Label: Bear Family Records

Released 2014

In another fine box set series from reissue specialists Bear Family Records, the history of the American folk ballad tradition is chronicled with Troubadours: Folk and the Roots of American Music. From the dawn of the recording era and the rural Appalachian singers of the 1920s through the pop crossover singer/songwriters of the 1970s, the traditions of storytelling, political statement, and personal introspection have remained common threads throughout folk music's history. This third volume covers a critical era when the folk revival of the early '60s introduced important artists like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, who paid equal tribute to both ancient traditions and contemporary politics in a decade that would serve as a lightning rod for social change. This three-disc set carries over into the early '70s, featuring artists like Jim Croce and Harry Chapin, who brought their folk narratives to the pop charts with more progressive styles and modern instrumentation.

Track Listing:

1. Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
2. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
3. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
4. The Bells of Rhymney
5. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
6. Song of the Punch Press Operator
7. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
8. From Way Up Here
9. The Clearwater
10. Last Train to Nuremberg
11. Hobo's Lullaby
12. What Have They Done to the Rain?
13. We Shall Overcome
14. Farewell, Angelina
15. Daddy, You've Been on My Mind
16. Legend of a Girl Child Linda
17. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
18. Diamonds and Rust
19. Now That the Buffalo's Gone
20. Cod'ine
21. The Universal Soldier
22. Until It's Time for You to Go
23. The Piney Wood Hills
24. My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying
25. On the Road Again
26. No Regrets
27. Merrimack County
28. Joshua Gone Barbados
29. Light Rain
30. Won't You Tell Me
31. Highway 301 Blues
32. One Morning in May
33. Kentucky Moonshiner]
34. Three Songs - A Look at the Ragtime Era (Sister Kate's Night Out)
35. Ginger Man
36. Minglewood
37. Garden of Joy
38. Midnight at the Oasis
39. South Coast
40. San Francisco Bay Blues
41. Coming in to Los Angeles
42. Percy's Song
43. Alice's Restaurant
44. Daydream
45. Younger Girl
46. Darlin' Companion
47. Hey Joe (You Shot Your Woman Down)
48. Louise
49. Any Day Woman
50. Sunshine
51. Shanty
52. You Don't Mess Around with Jim
53. Time in a Bottle
54. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
55. Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)
56. I Got a Name
57. The Holdup
58. Danger Man
59. Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
60. Look What They're Done to My Song, Ma
61. Brand New Key
62. Taxi
63. Cat's in the Cradle