His first book, The Wayfaring Stranger, was published in 1948.
Her first professional engagement was singing lead for the folk group The Wayfaring Strangers.
The Wayfaring Strangers are a string band that dips into traditions from bluegrass to Arabic music.
The Wayfaring Strangers' hybrids were more improbable, but just as gratifying.
In 1940 Ives began his own radio show, titled The Wayfaring Stranger after one of his ballads.
Ives's autobiography, The Wayfaring Stranger, was published in 1948.
The Wayfaring Stranger (1944, Columbia C-103, 4 records, 10 inch, 78 rpm)
It became one of Burl Ives's signature songs, included on his 1944 album The Wayfaring Stranger.
He became known as "The Wayfaring Stranger".
Burl Ives, on the album The Wayfaring Stranger (1941, 1955)