Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones kick it off with one of the oldest and most collected and sung ballads from England – Barbara Allen. Ian and Sylvia add the Canadian song Brave Wolfe from the mid-1700s. Roger McGuinn shares the pre-Civil War spiritual All My Trials. Ed McCurdy rides the cattle trails in I Ride an Old Paint. Arizona cowgirl Katie Lee gives her rendition of The South Coast – one of the newest songs in the bunch dating from about 1926. Paul Robeson sings John Henry with a driving tempo set by Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. John A. Lomax, Jr. leads the audience at the very first Kerrville Folk Festival in the prison song Long John.
I Hear America Singing - August 3rd and 4th 2024
1. Barbara Allen by Billie Joe & Norah
2. Vicar of Bray by Theodore Bikel
3. Brave Wolfe by Ian and Sylvia
4. Amazing Grace by Judy Collins
5. Little Mohee by Burl Ives
6. Shenandoah by Peter Hollens
7. Clementine by Pete Seeger
8. All My Trials by Roger McGuinn
9. John Henry by Paul Robeson
10. I Ride An Old Paint by Ed McCurdy
11. The Buffalo Skinners by Brownie McNeil
12. Long John by John A. Lomax, Jr.
13. Alabama Bound by Lead Belly
14. The South Coast by Katie Lee
15. Spanish is the Loving Tongue by James Keelaghan and Oscar Lopez
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