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Thread #156125   Message #3793597
Posted By: Thomas Stern
03-Jun-16 - 10:06 AM
Thread Name: Pete Seeger - resources
Subject: RE: Pete Seeger - resources
scheduled for 29 July 2016 release, from FELLSIDE Recordings:

PETE SEEGER IN ENGLAND       2-CD
Disc: 1
1. Intro
2. East Virginia
3. Deep Blue Sea
4. I Knew Leadbelly
5. El Dia De Tu Santo
6. Cumberland Bear Hunt
7. Pretty Polly
8. He Lies In The American Land
9. One Big Fat Hen
10. Leather Britches/jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring
11. Suliram
12. The Bells Of Rhymney
13. John Riley
14. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
15. I Am A Union Woman/fare Y'well Old Ely Branch
16. Which Side Are You On?
17. The Scaler
18. Talking Union
19. The Water Is Wide
20. Bayeza
21. Abi-yo-yo
22. I Never Will Marry
23. She Moves Through The Fair
24. How Beautiful Are The Nights In Israel
25. Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
[the selections on DISC 1 were released by FOLKLORE Records
in 1963 on 2 LP's
FOLKLORE F/LAUT/1 PETE SEEGER IN CONCERT
FOLKLORE F-LAUT/2 PETE SEEGER In Concert Vol.2 ]

Disc: 2
1. Old Joe Clark
2. The House Carpenter
3. Medley
4. Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
5. What Did You Learn In School Today?
6. Little Boxes
7. Intro
8. If You Miss Me At The Back Of The Bus
9. Intro
10. Pastures Of Plenty
11. The Sinking Of The 'reuben James'
12. Intro
13. Mail Myself To You
14. The Frog & The Mouse
15. Shanties: Shenandoah/Louisiana
16. Little Birdie
17. Intro
18. Guantanamera
19. A Hard Rains Gonna Fall
20. We Shall Overcome

"The legendary American Folk singer's career had been seriously knocked off course by the McCarthy witch-hunts into Unamerican Activities in the USA affecting artists believed to be communists. At one stage Seeger was facing a ten year prison sentence, but he managed to visit the UK in 1958. The concert was recorded and issued by the Folklore label which emanated out of the Dobell's record shop on Charing Cross road in West London. In 1964 he was back again and at one concert, at Manchester's Free Trade Hall, he was recorded again.

Both concerts on this DOUBLE CD FOR THE PRICE OF ONE set are typical Seeger material of that time. He talks about his friends Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie and champions new songwriters like Tom Paxton and Malvina Reynolds. The concerts also give a wonderful insight to how Seeger worked an audience and had them eating out of his hand. His ability to engage the audience is an object lesson for young performers. The Folklore LPs had limited circulation and the Manchester concert has never been heard before. The booklet comes with an informative essay about Pete Seeger by Joe Stead. "