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Engine One-Forty-Three" (Roud 255) is a folk ballad in the tradition of Anglo-American train wreck songs. It is based on the true story of the wreck of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 's Fast Flying Virginian ( FFV ) near Hinton, West Virginia in 1890.
Francis Moreland Warner (April 5, 1903 – February 27, 1978) was an American folk song collector, singer, musician, and YMCA executive. He and his wife Anne Warner (born Elizabeth Anne Locher, October 18, 1905 – April 26, 1991) collected and preserved many previously unpublished traditional song versions from the eastern United States, including "Tom Dooley", "He's Got the Whole World in ...
"On Springfield Mountain" or "Springfield Mountain" (Laws G16) [1] is an American ballad which recounts the tragic death of a young man who is bitten by a rattlesnake while mowing a field. [2] Historically, the song refers to the death of Timothy Merrick, who was recorded to have died on August 7, 1761, in Wilbraham, Massachusetts by snakebite .
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 ...
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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 Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars; a beginning of the divergence of country music from traditional folk music.
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.