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Artist: Almanac Singers
Label: Mca
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 008811149925
EAN: 0008811149925
ASIN: B000002P32

Release Date: 1996-10-22

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CDs $7 - $10

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Listmania:

Essential Folk Music

Tracks:

Blow Ye Winds, Heigh Ho
Away, Rio
Blow The Man Down
House Of The Rising Sun
Ground Hog
State Of Arkansas
The Weaver's Song
I Ride An Old Paint
Hard, Ain't It Hard
The Dodger Song
Greenland Fishing
The Golden Vanity
The Coast of High Barbary
Haul Away, Joe

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Customer Reviews:

A Piece of Music History.......2005-06-26

This is an outstanding collection of American folk songs, sung with great skill and enthusiasm by the Almanac Singers. The Almanac Singers were the predecessors to the the great folk group, The Weavers, and included Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Pete Hawes, and Millard Lampell. It is a must for those who understand the rich heritage of American folk tradition, and who appreciate the early stirrings of the 'folk revival' that gave birth to such popular performers as Peter, Paul, and Mary, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, and of course, Bob Dylan, as well as those on the cutting edge of the protest movement that were not so 'mainstream,' such as Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs. Woody and Pete are the daddies, or perhaps grandaddies now, of them all, and on this album you can hear Woody in his prime, and Pete in his younger days. It's a treasure!

Piece of folk history, but the other CD is a better buy..........2003-09-21

The Almanac Singers were a commune, collecting some superbly talented artists like the young Lee Hays, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, joined by a rotating group of competent supporting musicians. In 1940-41 they had several recording sessions and performed mostly for labor union rallies and left-wing political meetings. This CD features their versions of traditional sailor songs and agricultural ditties, rather than the controversial union stuff and pre-WWII neutrality songs and early WWII anti-facist tunes. For one-take sessions, done on the lowest of budgets, these renditions are pretty wonderful. If you just want to have a sample of what the Almanacs, who pioneered the folk recording group genre, and paved the way for The Weavers a decade later, were like, it will do nicely. However, if you want an Almanac CD which presents 29 of the total of 35 tracks the group ever preserved, and includes the union and political stuff along with these songs, too, then go buy the disc titled "Songs of Protest." It is a great value. (By the way, the sound quality on both of the available Almanacs CD's is surprisingly good.)

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