American Favorite Ballads Vol. 3 is one installment in Pete Seeger's long-running series for Folkways Records that collectively constituted one of the most ambitious acts of American folk music documentation and popularization in the twentieth century. Seeger approached the common repertoire of Anglo-American balladry and parlor song as a shared inheritance belonging equally to everyone. Tracks like 'Clementine' and 'She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain' were familiar to virtually every American schoolchild, and Seeger's performances were designed to invite participation rather than passive listening. His five-string banjo playing, drawing on the older frailing tradition rather than the Scruggs style, presented the instrument as a vehicle for community singing.
Tracklist
- 1 Gypsy Davy 5:00
- 2 Deep Blue Sea 2:14
- 3 New River Train alt version 3:26
- 4 St. James Hospital 2:56
- 5 E-ri-e Canal 3:21
- 6 St. Louis Blues 2:23
- 7 Boll Weevil alt version 2:36
- 8 Clementine Source Recording 3:07
- 9 The Girl I Left Behind 1:11
- 10 When I First Came to This Land 2:41
- 11 The Titanic 3:43
- 12 El-a-noy 1:49
- 13 Lady of Carlysle 3:19
- 14 My Good Man 2:39
- 15 The Golden Vanity alt version 4:16
- 16 Ain’t It a Shame 1:48
- 17 Swanee River 3:02
- 18 Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child 4:32
- 19 The Boys from County Mayo 2:24
- 20 No Irish Need Apply 1:55
- 21 Paddy Works on the Railroad 2:26
- 22 Arkansas Traveler alt version 3:04
- 23 When I Was Single 1:17
- 24 Wondrous Love alt version 3:23
- 25 Ground Hog 3:49
- 26 Old Blue 2:22
- 27 She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain Source Recording 1:58
- 28 Erie Canal 2:34
- 29 Dink’s Song alt version 2:38
