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| 1. Little Boxes |
| 2. Wimoweh (Mbube) |
| 3. Where Have All The Flowers Gone? |
| 4. Abiyoyo |
| 5. The Bells Of Rhymney |
| 6. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) |
| 7. Talking Union |
| 8. Which Side Are You On |
| 9. We Shall Overcome |
| 10. Living In The Country |
| 11. Darling Corey |
| 12. Guantanamera |
| 13. Waist Deep In The Big Muddy |
| 14. Barbara Allen |
| 15. This Land Is Your Land |
| 16. Michael Row The Boat Ashore |
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I detest live re-recordings of old hits & this guy seemed like a geriatric then, so why am I always playing this, you ask? Couldn't be the fact you're 52 yourself now, you say?
Don't think so-Seeger is a consumate professional musician, for starters and the fact that this was actually recorded at one of his peace/summer camps, in front of a pretty young audience, doesn't see him lower his musical standards, nor talk down to the audience.
Few people before or since have managed to sign from the Left without becoming diatribal or polemic. Seeger rarely loses his easy charm and Little Boxes is the most obvious example of a cutting satirical commentary disguised in a virtual kid's song.
You also learn from whence Seeger learned these songs, or got the influence for them, Guantamera coming from an 1898 Spanish/Cuban original and Turn, Turn, Turn virtually straight from Ecclesiasticus.
I will admit I only got it originally for one vaguely remembered track, but came to find there are jewels throughout this coalfield or industrial landscape, which is probably how Pete Seeger felt it ought to be, as it is in real life.
And yes, that one track, The Bells Of Rhymney, is worth it alone. For all I've said about polemics, no other song you'll ever meet about Capitalism/Materilalism will raise YOUR hackles as this does, assisted by Seeger's flawless delivery.
In conclusion, a quite thrilling, enchanting experience.
Pete Seeger got a single in the top ten chart only one time. That song was Little Boxes which is the opening number for this collection.
Maybe these songs never were 'hits' but they are a fine collection of folk songs, old and new. This album was originally published in the late sixties and the CD version has a couple of extra tracks.
But I still recommend that you start your Pete Seeger collection somewhere else. American Favorite Ballads 1-4 are fine collections of old American folk music. Anyone of them is more interesting than this collection. As for Seeger's political songs I recommed Smithsonian Folkways' If I Had A Hammer - Songs of Hope Struggle.
More crudely constructed and politically biased than I remembered from my youth. Read more
All his well known stuff is here but I suggest that if you like this you'll be... Read more
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