| Format | Audio CD |
| Ordering Number | SFW40058 |
| Barcode | 093074005828 |
| label | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Release date | 5/31/2013 |
| Release date | 1/1/1992 |
| salesrank | 4618 |
Songs of struggle which emerged from the coal mines, textile mills and acres of farmland, and spoke of issues important to the American laborer. Twenty-four songs written about the unprecedented industrialization of the 19th century, including Peg and Awl, The Farmer is the Man, and Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues. Irwin Silber's notes provide a history of labor folk song and its role in American popular music. "Seeger's straightforward, sincere singing is accompanied by sparse, effective banjo and guitar...an important reissue." —Sing Out
CD 1- 1.Peg And Awl02:29
- 2.The Blind Fiddler01:17
- 3.The Buffalo Skinnners02:44
- 4.Eight-Hour Day01:00
- 5.Hard Times In The Mill02:15
- 6.Roll Down The Line03:15
- 7.Hayseed Like Me01:16
- 8.The Farmer Is The Man01:43
- 9.Come All You Hardy Miners02:00
- 10.He Lies In The American Land02:01
- 11.Casey Jones02:20
- 12.Let Them Wear Their Watches Fi03:41
- 13.Cotton Mill Colic01:40
- 14.Seven Cent Cotton And Forty Cent Meat01:58
- 15.Mill Mother's Lament01:37
- 16.Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch02:11
- 17.Beans, Bacon, And Gravy02:56
- 18.The Death Of Harry Simms02:14
- 19.Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues01:09
- 20.Ballad Of Barney Graham01:48
- 21.My Children Are Seven In Number03:59
- 22.Raggedy02:32
- 23.Pittsburgh Town01:30
- 24.Sixty Per Cent01:00
- Total:50:35