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Years ago, before the advances of modern technology gave us MP3 players and video phones, people used to get together with family and friends to make music. Gathered around the fireplace or sitting on the front porch, people of all ages would pull out instruments and sing traditional songs that had been passed down from previous generations.

Parents learned from grandparents and children learned from parents. In this manner, a circle was created and the music was preserved for future generations to know, learn and love. This is the very essence of folk music, and its legacy continues on Folk Playground, a family recording from Putumayo Kids.

In the 1950s and 60s, many songs that had survived the passing of time found renewed life and meaning for a new generation of performers and audiences. Singers like Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Odetta and others were part of this popular revival and many of the people who sing on Folk Playground grew up listening to their songs. As adults, these musicians have continued the folk music tradition by performing their own versions of classic songs or by writing new ones inspired by those songs.

Some of these musicians can trace their roots directly back to the folk family tree: Erib Bibb is the son of famous folk singer Leon Bibb. He is joined by Michael Jerome Browne on a folk//blues song “Just Look Up.” They are joined by Elizabeth Mitchell, Jon Gailmor, Victor Johnson and Trout Fishing in America, who have devoted their careers to performing folk songs for children and adults.

Song List

1. This Old Man – Victor Johnson
2. Sheep – Zoe Lewis
3. Just Kidding – Jon Gailmor,
4. Got No Strings – Michelle Shocked
5. It’s All About How You Look at It – Brady Rymer
6. Hop Up Ladies – Dan Zanes
7. Froggie Went A-Courtin’ – Laurie Berkner
8. Fill It Up – Trout Fishing in America
9. Roller in the Coaster – Justin Roberts
10. Polly Wolly Doodle – Leon Redbone
11. Crawdad – Elizabeth Mitchell
12. Just Look Up – Eric Bibb, Michael Jerome Browne