Product Overview
In 1942, the Archive of Folk Song in the Library of Congress issued its first albums of recorded folk music, thereby making some of its rich collection of field recordings available to the public. Among those first releases was a sampler of Anglo-American Ballads, edited by pioneer collector Alan Lomax. One year later, Benjamin Botkin assembled this set as a successor to that initial offering. Included were such recorded treasures as "The Golden Willow Tree", "The Two Sisters" and "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender". This album, unique for its time, still holds pleasures for the listener and is as fresh today, in this newly remastered version, as when it first appeared.
