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Pete Seeger - American Folk Anthology (2008)

Pete Seeger - American Folk Anthology (2008)

BAND/ARTIST: Pete Seeger

  • Title: American Folk Anthology
  • Year Of Release: 2008
  • Label: Not Now Music
  • Genre: Country, Folk
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log)
  • Total Time: 2:36:00
  • Total Size: 706 MB
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Tracklisting:

American Ballads

1-1. Pretty Polly
1-2. The Three Butchers
1-3. John Henry
1-4. The Titanic Disaster
1-5. Fair Margaret And Sweet William
1-6. John Hardy
1-7. The Golden Vanity
1-8. Gypsy Davy
1-9. The Farmer's Curst Wive
1-10. Down In Carlisle
1-11. St. James Hospital
1-12. Jesse James
1-13. Barbara Allen

Bonus Tracks

1-14. Sioux Indians
1-15. Texian Boys
1-16. Hold The Fort
1-17. Ground Hog
1-18. The Derby Ram

American Favourite Ballads

2-1. Down In The Valley
2-2. Mary Don't You Weep
2-3. The Blue Tail Fly
2-4. Yankee Doodle
2-5. Cielito Lindo
2-6. Wabash Cannonball
2-7. So Long, It's Been Good To Know You
2-8. Skip To My Lou
2-9. The Wagoner's Lad
2-10. The Wreck Of The Old '97
2-11. Old Dan Trucker
2-12. I Ride An Old Paint
2-13. Frankie And Johnnie
2-14. On Top Of Old Smokie
2-15. The Big Rock Candy Mountains
2-16. Home On The Range

Bonus Tracks

2-17. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
2-18. She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain

American Industrial Ballads

3-1. Peg And Awl
3-2. The Blind Fiddler
3-3. Buffalo Skinners
3-4. Eight Hour Day
3-5. Hard Times In The Mill
3-6. Roll Down The Line
3-7. Hayseed Like Me
3-8. The Farmer Is The Man
3-9. Come All You Hardy Minors
3-10. He Lies In The American Land
3-11. Casey Jones
3-12. Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine
3-13. Cotton Mill Colic
3-14. Seven Cent Cotton & Forty Cent Meat
3-15. Mill Mother's Lament
3-16. Fare Ye Well Old Ely Branch
3-17. Beans, Bacon And Gravy
3-18. The Death Of Harry Simms
3-19. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
3-20. Ballad Of Barney Graham
3-21. My Children Are Seven In Number
3-22. Raggedy
3-23. Pittsburgh Town
3-24. Sixty Per Cent

This is a treasure trove of old American folk songs sung by the one and only Pete Seeger, accompanying himself on the banjo

The first CD here mainly contains songs that I was not generally familiar with, while the songs on the second CD are generally familiar. Other than that, the two albums are similar in style and scope, containing traditional folk songs that Pete sings while playing his banjo. Some of the songs I was familiar with from childhood (Jesse James, Blue tail fly, I ride an old paint) while others became familiar after I started to take a serious interest in music (Wabash cannonball, Frankie and Johnnie, Wreck of the old 97, Home on the range) and some of them were new to me when I bought this set. All of them are worth hearing and I didn't notice anything that was obviously political. In that much, these two CD's present a stark contrast to the third CD.

The bonus tracks on the first two CD's seem a little arbitrary and it seems to me that they added a couple of Weavers tracks among them although no mention is made of how these bonus tracks were chosen or where they came from.

The third CD has no bonus tracks and lives up to its title. Like the first two CD's, this CD finds Pete singing while playing his banjo, but it is filled entirely with stories of hard lives for working men, some of the songs merely reflect on the hard lives while others are political to varying degrees. Casey Jones, the story of a train driver who lost his life in the course of duty, is the only song here that I was familiar with from other sources, though I'm familiar with some of Pete's political songs through earlier compilations of his music, notably If I had a hammer: songs of hope and struggle.

Whether you agree with Pete's political beliefs or not, these songs provide an interesting look back into a world long gone.


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  • mufty77
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