This week on Classical IPR in Concert, it’s a folk music singalong! Folk musician Mike Seeger (brother of Pete Seeger) once famously commented that the definition of American folk music is "...all the music that fits between the cracks."
This week, we look into those cracks and enjoy folk music from every region of the United States. We’ll hear favorites from Woody Guthrie; Peter, Paul, and Mary, The Carter Family and many more.
Playlist
Songs I learned as a kid:
If I Had a Hammer - Peter, Paul, and Mary
The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
Clemente Op. 36 - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Cowboy Songs:
Goodbye, Old Paint - Harry McClintock
The Streets of Laredo - Eddy Arnold
Don’t Fence Me In - Roy Rogers
Shanties:
Leave Her Jonny, Leave Her - The Fisherman’s Friends
Pass Around the Grog - The Fisherman’s Friends
Drunken Sailor - Storm Weather Shanty Choir
Dance break! Fun folk instrumentals:
Mountain Dew - Red Rhodes and the Roadrunners
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
American Southeast:
Can the Circle Be Unbroken - The Carter Family
Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby - Emmylou Harris, Allison Kraus, Gillian Welch
Women of Folk Music:
Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten
Old Virginny - Jean Ritchie
Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds
Miscellaneous:
High Flyin’ Bird - Richie Havens
Muleskinner Blues - Odetta
Goodnight, Irene - Huddie Leadbetter (Lead Belly)
Closing set:
Turn Turn Turn - Pete Seeger
Blowin’ in the Wind - Bob Dylan
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
Day Is Done - Peter, Paul, and Mary