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Where Have All the Flowers Gone

The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 1

Jim Musselman, founder of Appleseed Records, set out a couple of years ago to ask a large number of well-known folk and popular artists to record songs written by Pete Seeger for a “tribute album". The result, which just was released this spring, is stunning. It includes recordings by Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Cockburn, Ani DiFranco, Sweet Honey & the Rock, Holly Near & dozens of others. The title song recorded in Ulster by Tommy Sands & Delores Keane with an interfaith Belfast children’s choir & the cellist who played in the central square of Sarajevo during the bombing of that city during the Bosnia war is incredibly moving. 35 songs in all on this double CD.

$25 for double CD

If I Had a Song

The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 2

This single CD includes cuts by Joan Baez, Dar Williams, Jackson Browne, Arlo Guthrie. $15.

Seeds

The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3

The final volume of this best-selling series. The first CD contains songs that Pete Seeger has recorded with his grandson Tao. The second CD has recordings by other artists, as one Where Have All the Flowers Gone and If I Had a Song. The Seeger CD captures Pete’s voice as it sounds today, with all the “rough edges", passion and commitment for the things he still is saying to the world through his singing today at age 84.

$25 for double C.D.

HARP

Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert & Pete Seeger -- Live Concert Recording

Former Weavers Pete Seeger and Ronnie Gilbert, the irrepressible Arlo Guthrie, and Holly Near all brought favorite songs to perform at this classic 1984 concert. Selections include various Near and Guthrie originals, traditional folk standards (“Wimoweh," “Twelve Gates to the City," a stunning rendition by Ronnie of “The Water is Wide") and cover tunes ranging from Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man" (complete with trademark deadpan commentary by Arlo) to the late Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans" to Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On."

With instrumental support by Pete, Arlo and pianist/composer/musical arranger Jeff Langley, the four voices can be heard in varying configurations, sometimes uniting in a multi-generational rainbow of brilliant harmony.

This re-release on CD includes 12 previously unreleased songs.

Double CD $25

Sing-along Demonstration Concert

We particularly love this double cassette/CD, recorded live at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge in 1980. Pete had been frustrated that his live concert recordings mainly picked up his own voice and not the audience’s, so he asked Folkways to mike the audience for this record. You get a wonderful feeling of actually being at a Seeger concert, hearing him teach songs, banter with the audience, hearing the audience learning the songs and the rising harmonies as they join in with Pete.

Songs include: Amazing Grace, the humorous “filksong" version of Old Time Religion, Hole in the Bucket, Old Time Religion, If I Had a Hammer, The Water Is Wide and many others. Two hours of rousing music!

Double CD $25

American Favorite Ballads Vol.3

One Pete’s most important series of Folkways recordings in the 1950’s was a series of albums of traditional American folksongs. These are being gradually re-issued on CD. These recordings are spare in the extreme -- just Pete accompanying himself with guitar or banjo. You may well have sung these songs as a child around the campfire or piano. Hundreds of the traditional songs and ballads in Rise Up Singing are on these CD’s. This is the most recent volume to be issued.

Includes Wondrous Love, The Erie Canal, Golden Vanity, Old Blue, The Titanic, Boll Weevill, New River Train, When I First Came to This Land and 20 others.

Traditional Christmas Carols

This is our very favorite Christmas album! Pete’s wonderfully simple renditions of these carols are a stark contrast to most Christmas music. Tracks include: Lo How a Rose, Rise Up Shepherd, Carol of the Beasts & 10 other lovely songs. Put it on, light some candles, snuggle up and let Pete quietly sing to you…

• PETE SEEGER KIDS’ RECORDINGS •

Abiyoyo & Other Story Songs for Children

Includes Pete’s own timeless rendering of his classic story about the courage of an unpopular boy and his father’s who saved their time from a giant who didn’t brush his teeth.

Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Little Fishes

2 LP’s of animal songs recorded by Pete Seeger in 1955 combined on one CD. Playful favorites of young children for decades.

Songs include: The Foolish Frog, I Had a Rooster, The Fox, Cumberland Mountain Bear Hunt, Old Blue, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, The Darby Ram and more than 20 more.