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American Industrial Ballads album by Pete Seeger was released Feb 14, 2008 on the Not Now Music label. A collection of 24 songs which were written and sung as a result of the great industrialization of America over the last 140 years. American Industrial Ballads CD music Includes liner notes and a new introduction by Irwin Silber. Pete Seeger presents a history of the Industrial Revolution and its impact on working people on American Industrial Ballads, a collection of 24 songs (over half of them shorter than two minutes each) sequenced in chronological order by date of composition, to the extent that this can be determined, from the early-1800s appearance of "Peg and Awl," in which a worker struggles to keep up with a machine, to songs written by Woody Guthrie and Les Rice in the 1940s. American Industrial Ballads music CDs Only a couple of songs are well known, and those don't fit the concept perfectly. "The Buffalo Skinners," an account of cowboys who kill their overseer after he refuses to pay them, and "Casey Jones," the famous tale of a train wreck, are both somewhat tangential to industrial concerns, though they do fit themes heard throughout the album: first, employers' abuse of workers, who then must fight back (although usually by starting unions and going out on strike); and second, the relationship between an individual worker and the system of machinery he encounters. As the album goes on, the workers' complaints about ill treatment and low pay become more extreme, and eventually the need for unions to represent them seems overwhelming. Even then, the bosses respond with violence, as Seeger documents in such songs as Jim Garland's "The Death of Harry Simms" and Della Mae Graham's "Ballad of Barney Graham," both true stories of murdered union men. Accompanying himself mostly on banjo and sometimes guitar, Seeger presents the songs straightforwardly with only occasional flourishes, intent on getting the meanings across, although occasionally his desire to lead singalongs comes out, such as in "Raggedy," when he provides cues to sing each verse, even though he's performing alone in a recording studio. Many of these songs are too harrowing to sing along to, though. Taken together, they chronicle a century and a half of the efforts of farmers, textile workers, and miners, primarily, to get what they deserve from increasingly rich and powerful captains of industry. ~ William Ruhlmann From takin' on the man to lovin' your woman, Pete has the pulse of the Average Joe. Includes Eight-Hour Day; Cotton Mill Colic; Casey Jones; She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain; Kisses Sweeter than Wine, and many more. 


Track Listing:
1. Peg & Awl 
2. The Blind Fiddler 
3. Buffalo Skinners 
4. Eight Hour Day 
5. Hard Times In The Mill 
6. Roll Down The Line 
7. Hayseed Like Me 
8. The Farmer Is The Man 
9. Come All You Hardy Miners 
10. He Lies In The American Land 
11. Casey Jones 
12. Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine 
13. Cotton Mill Colic 
14. Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat 
15. Mill Mother's Lament 
16. Fare Ye Well Old Ely Branch 
17. Beans Bacon & Gravy 
18. The Death Of Harry Simms 
19. Winnsboro Cotton Mills Blues 
20. Ballad Of Barney Graham 
21. My Children Are Seven In Number 
22. Raggedy 
23. Pittsburgh Town 
24. Sixty Per Cent
25. Down In The Valley 
26. Mary Don't You Weep 
27. The Blue Tail Fly 
28. Yankee Doodle 
29. Cielito Lindo 
30. Wabash Cannonball 
31. So Long It's Been Good To Know You 
32. Skip To My Lou 
33. The Wagoner's Lad 
34. The Wreck Of The Old '97 
35. Old Dan Tucker 
36. I Ride An Old Paint 
37. Frankie & Johnny 
38. On Top Of Old Smokey 
39. The Big Rock Candy Mountain 
40. Home On The Range 
41. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine 
42. She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 2xCD
Genre: Country, Folk
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2008
Speelduur: 97 minuten
Cover: Front, Back en Insides zijn in de RARs verwerkt