A collection of songs gleaned from a repertoire of traditional music of the North American people that he has been amassing for a half-century. Frank says, ", “Some of them are folk songs in the purest sense, while others were part of the popular music of some past generation. I believe they all have this in common: they are timeless, transcending all the caprices of musical fashion, and speak to us as clearly as they did to our antecedents.”