I Hear America Singing - Aging

By Ross Burns

Published August 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM CDT

A new Guy Clark retrospective collection, The Best Of The Dualtone Years, comes out March 3, 2017.

When Ross attended his high school reunion, he saw all those old folks that he went to school with and started thinking about aging and rounded up a bundle of songs reflecting that idea.

I HEAR AMERICA SINGING - 'AGING' PLAYLIST

1. Those Were the Days by Gene & Francesca
2. Old Friends by Richie Havens
3. Old Friends by Guy Clark
4. The Way Old Friends Do by The Kingston Trio
5. I Guess I’m Getting Older by Carolyn Hester
6. My Get Up and Go by Pete Seeger
7. I’m Easy Now by Eric Bogle
8. The Dutchman by Micheal Peter Smith
9. Rose by Glenn Yarbrough
10. Love’s Been Good to Me by Nina Simone
11. Fifty Years Ago by Ian Tyson
12. You’re Aging Well by Dar Williams & Joan Baez
13. Retirement Blues by Richard Paul Thomas
14. The Old Fart in the Mirror by Steven Fromholz

I Hear America Singing

Ross Burns

A native of Austin, Texas, Ross grew up in the midst of the Urban Folk Revival of the 1950s and 60s. His first introduction to folk music was the Kingston Trio with their million selling albums. From there, he went forward, backwards and sideways collecting music all along the way. He is a retired librarian and a student of history.

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