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George Malcolm Laws (January 4, 1919 – August 1, 1994) was a scholar of traditional British and American folk song. [1] [2]He was best known for his collection of traditional ballads "American Balladry from British Broadsides", published in 1957 by the American Folklore Society.
In his review for Allmusic, critic Bruce Eder wrote the album was Odetta's "most ambitious album up to this point in time—and for some years to come."He singled out "Pastures of Plenty," as one of the best tracks, calling it "a rendition so ominous and provocative that it rates with the best this reviewer has ever heard (which are Guthrie's own and Dylan's early-'60s officially unreleased ...
In America a distinction is drawn between ballads that are versions of European, particularly British and Irish songs, and 'Native American ballads', developed without reference to earlier songs. A further development was the evolution of the blues ballad, which mixed the genre with Afro-American music.
Child Ballads; Christmas in the Trenches; Cindy (folk song) Cindy, Cindy; City of New Orleans (song) Cluck Old Hen; Coal Black Rose; Collide (Howie Day song) The Colorado Trail (song) Come Follow Me (To the Redwood Tree) Comet (song) Cotton Fields; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Count On Me (Bruno Mars song) Crawford's Defeat by the Indians; The Cuckoo (song ...
The murder ballad "Pretty Polly", indexed by another scholar of American folk music, George Malcolm Laws, is an American version of an earlier British song, "The Gosport Tragedy". [6] The oldest surviving folk song of local Anglo-American origin is the ballad " Springfield Mountain " dating back to 1761 in Connecticut .
Smith divided the collection into three, two record volumes: Ballads, Social Music, and Songs. The first volume consists of ballads including many American versions of Child Ballads taken from the English folk tradition. Each song tells a story about a specific event or time, and Smith may have made some effort to organize them to suggest a ...
John Jacob Niles (April 28, 1892 – March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer and collector of traditional ballads. Called the "Dean of American Balladeers," [1] Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Odetta, Joan Baez, Burl Ives, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan, among others ...
American ballad musicians. Pages in category "American ballad musicians" The following 122 pages are in this category, out of 122 total.