Why A 56 song recording? Why not just have 4 volumes or fewer songs?
Once you get started, and discover that you can play a song and generate some magic on your own, you don’t need to begin again. We wanted there to be a big glorious pile of songs, so everyone could find a few they really liked. It’s a feast. All the instructional materials we ever found gave you a couple of 2-chord songs and immediately rush on to fancier things. We think you need to spend a long time enjoying playing simple songs and learning to enjoy what it is to make your own music. Getting good and learning hard things on guitar is not the goal. Making music and singing songs you like is.