01 - House of the rising sun
02 - Lily of the west
03 - Jackaroe
04 - Go away from my window
05 - Barbara Allen
06 - Fennario
07 - Railroad boy
08 - Black is the color of my true love's hair
09 - House carpenter
10 - Old Blue
11 - Henry Martin
12 - Queen of hearts
Before the Great Folk Scare of the 1960s, there was traditional music, songs that have triumphantly withstood the test of time and interpretation by thousands of singers both famous and of the back-porch variety. Folks have been singing these songs since before "music" was synonymous with "entertainment". They've been sung by mothers lulling their babies to sleep, and around campfires and kitchen tables, and as men went off to battle and to sea, they've been used to spread the news of palace doings and pirates and adventurers, and to tell the stories of regular folks going about their daily business. That's where these songs, sung so beautifully and cleanly by Joan Baez on this album, come from.
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