Artist	Song
Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land
from This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 (1997)
Bob Dylan	The Times They Are A-Changin'
from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1983)
Peter, Paul & Mary	Blowin' In the Wind
from In the Wind (2010)
Pete Seeger	We Shall Overcome
from Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (1987)
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi
from Ladies of the Canyon (2007)
The Kingston Trio	Tom Dooley
from The Capitol Collector's Series: The Kingston Trio (1990)
Trini Lopez	If I Had a Hammer
from 14 Greatest Hits (2002)
Michael	Michael
from The Highwaymen (2007)
Phil Ochs	I Ain't Marching Anymore
from I Ain't Marching Anymore (2006)
The Weavers	Goodnight Irene
from On Top of Old Smoky (2008)
Tracy Chapman	Talkin' Bout a Revolution
from Tracy Chapman (2005)
Tim Hardin	Reason to Believe
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tim Hardin (2002)
Simon & Garfunkel	The Sound of Silence
from Sounds of Silence (1986)
Richie Havens	Follow
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Richie Havens (2000)
Leadbelly	Pick a Bale of Cotton
from Take This Hammer - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (2003)
Kris Kristofferson	Me and Bobby McGee
from Kristofferson (2001)
Gordon Lightfoot	Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
from Rhino Hi-Five: Gordon Lightfoot - EP (2005)
Peter, Paul & Mary	Puff, the Magic Dragon
from The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary (2005)
The Kingston Trio	Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
from The Capitol Collector's Series: The Kingston Trio (1990)
Judy Collins	Both Sides Now
from The Very Best of Judy Collins (2005)
Bob Dylan	Shelter from the Storm
from The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
The Rooftop Singers	Walk Right In
from The Best of The Rooftop Singers (2006)
Leonard Cohen	Suzanne
from The Best of Leonard Cohen (1987)
Tim Hardin	If I Were a Carpenter
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tim Hardin (2002)
John Prine	Angel from Montgomery
from Rhino Hi-Five: John Prine - EP (2007)
Buffy Sainte-Marie	Universal Soldier
from The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie (2005)
The New Christy Minstrels	Green, Green
from The New Christy Minstrels' Greatest Hits (1988)
Fred Neil	Other Side to This Life
from Bleecker and McDougal (2005)
The Springfields	Silver Threads and Golden Needles
from Dusty Springfield: Gold (2006)
Tom Paxton	The Last Thing On My Mind
from Ramblin' Boy (2005)
Odetta	Cotton Fields
from Best of the Vanguard Years (2006)
Bruce Cockburn	If I Had a Rocket Launcher
from Waiting for a Miracle (1995)
The Music City Five	Washington Square
from Great 60's Instrumentals (2010)
Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Hard Travelin'
from Hard Travelin' (2007)
Bob Gibson	Well, Well, Well
from Yes I See (2005)
Suzanne Vega	Small Blue Thing
from Suzanne Vega (1986)
Fairport Convention	Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
from No More Sad Refrains - The Anthology (2000)
Joan Baez	Diamonds and Rust
from Joan Baez: Greatest Hits (1996)
Arlo Guthrie	The Motorcycle Song
from Alice's Restaurant (2004)
Ian & Sylvia	Four Strong Winds
from Vanguard 50 (2009)
Devendra Banhart	This Is the Way
from Rejoicing In the Hands (2004)
Donovan	Catch the Wind
from Catch the Wind (2008)
Mimi & Richard Farina	Pack Up Your Sorrows
from Vanguard 50 (2009)
Pete Seeger	Guantanamera
from Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits (1987)
Greg Brown	If I Had Known
from If I Had Known - Essential Recordings, 1980-1996 (2003)
Chad Mitchell Trio	What Did You Learn in School Today?
from The Best of the Chad Mitchell Trio: The Mercury Years (1998)
Phil Ochs	Flower Lady
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Phil Ochs (2002)
Tim Buckley	Once I Was (Live)
from Dream Letter - Live In London 1968 (2004)
Leo Kottke	Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
from 6- and 12-String Guitar (2006)
Nanci Griffith	From a Distance
from Lone Star State of Mind (1988)
Christine Lavin	Regretting What I Said
from Traditional Music Revisited (1982)
Billy Bragg & Wilco	At My Window Sad and Lonely
from Mermaid Avenue (2007)
Loudon Wainwright III	Dead Skunk
from Album III (1990)
Dave Van Ronk	Duncan and Brady
from The Folkways Years 1959-1961 (1991)
Burl Ives	Wayfaring Stranger
from The Asch Recordings, 1939-1945, Vol. 2 (1967)
Patty Larkin	I Told Him My Dog Wouldn't Run
from The Silverwolf Homeless Project (2005)
Townes Van Zandt	Pancho and Lefty
from Be Here to Love Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2006)
The Brothers Four	Greenfields
from The Brothers Four: Greatest Hits (2008)
Eric von Schmidt & Rolf Cahn	Wasn't That a Mighty Storm
from Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt (1961)
Taj Mahal	Candy Man
from Giant Step (1989)
Eric Andersen	Thirsty Boots (Extended Version)
from 'Bout Changes and Things (2006)
Richard Thompson	1952 Vincent Black Lightning
from Rumor and Sigh (1991)
Tom Rush	Merrimac County
from The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets, 1962-1999 (1999)
Dian & The Greenbriar Boys	He Was a Friend
from Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra Records - 1963-1973 (2007)
Iron & Wine	Naked As We Came
from Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
Elizabeth Cotten	Freight Train
from Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (1989)
The Limeliters	When I First Came to This Land
from The Limeliters (2005)
Indigo Girls	Kid Fears
from Indigo Girls (1992)
David Wilcox	Eye of the Hurricane
from The Very Best of David Wilcox (2001)
John Gorka	Houses In the Fields
from Pure John Gorka (2006)
Bill Morrissey & Mark Dann	Small Town On the River
from CooP - Fast Folk Musical Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 3) (1982)
Great Big Sea	Boston and St. Johns
from Great Big CD (2004)
Mitch & Mickey	A Kiss At the End of the Rainbow
from A Mighty Wind - The Album (2003)

Comment:

Many people, especially academics and musicologists, have debated just exactly what constitutes folk music; leave it to a science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein, to come up with the most elegant answer: "It's when folks make music, silly!" Our [i]Folk 101[/i] Essentials will take you from "The City of New Orleans" to the "Streets of London" with stops along the way at "Boston and St. John's" and "Washington Square", and we've rounded up performers not only from the good old U.S. of A., but also from north of the border and from across the sea. Some of these tunes go back hundreds of years, some were written in the new millennium, but they all share the simple human impulse rooted in our DNA and the history of a hundred million campfires: [i]everybody[/i] has a story to tell.

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