The Essential Pete Seeger

The Essential Pete Seeger Artist: Pete Seeger
Label: Vanguard Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 015707979825
EAN: 0015707979825
ASIN: B000000ECD


Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

  1. Coal Creek March
  2. Oh What A Beautiful City
  3. Clean-Oh/Ladies Auxiliary
  4. The Bells Of Rhymney
  5. So Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh
  6. Viva La Quince Brigada
  7. Suliram
  8. Wimoweh (Mbube)
  9. Bring Me Little Water, Silvy
  10. The Bourgeois Blues
  11. Roll On, Columbia
  12. East Virginia
  13. Saint James Hospital
  14. The Death Of Harry Simms
  15. We Shall Not Be Moved
  16. Medley: Cripple Creek/Old Joe Clark/Ida Red
  17. Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies
  18. John Hardy
  19. My Father's Mansions
  20. God Bless The Grass
  21. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
  22. Quite Early Morning
  23. Oh, Had I a Golden Thread

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars An Evening with Pete Seeger.......2006-10-24

This item has a really fun cover so that you can't miss it if you run across it somewhere.

Not to be confused with the recent company doing retrospectives of many artists, including Pete Seeger, under the same title "Essential Pete Seeger."

This volume seems to be the complete concert that some tracks for the recent "Essential" were selected from, including Wimoweh. While this concert does feature some hits that Seeger himself had with the Weavers like Wimoweh aka Mbube aka The Lion Sleeps Tonight, its not intended as a hits collection but is true to Seeger's preference for showcasing other people's songs: songs by his friend and old band mate Woody Guthrie, African American folk songs, mountain songs, world songs.

It is Essential Seeger in that it gives a faithful idea of what Seeger's like in concert: its just him and his banjo, which he plays beautifully; and the folk tradition of getting the audience to laugh and sing along. Sounds like an entertaining night was had by all.

Should you get it? Depends on what you're after. Don't expect Weavers studio recordings.

5 out of 5 stars A fine introduction to an important artist........2000-02-21

This is a fine introduction to the work of Pete Seeger. In order to understand the Folk Movement, you need to own this one and "We Shall Overcome."

Music CD:

  1. Live at the Troubadour 1969 ~ Tim Buckley
  2. Lookout Road
  3. Hypnotized ~ Naomi Sommers
  4. Summer Lightning ~ Garnet Rogers
  5. Now is the Time for Fishing ~ Sam Larner
  6. I Have A Little Shadow ~ Steve Klaper & Caitlin Klaper
  7. Possessed ~ The Klezmatics
  8. Hard to Beat ~ Rare Air
  9. Best of the Vanguard Years ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
  10. Thunderhead ~ Malcolm Dalglish w, Grey Larsen

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Twice Told Tales ~ Sid Selvidge

Blue Murder ~ Blue Murder

Ad Interitum Funebrarum ~ Argentum

Golden Gates ~ Diamond Rexx

The Meeting of the Waters ~ Tim O'Neill

Platinum Collection ~ Callas

Kount Azon ~ Guitara Band

Backtrackin

The Road To Wellville (1994 Film) ~ Rachel Portman

Psychic Karaoke ~ TransGlobal Underground