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We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Bruce Springsteen List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $11.96
Audio CD - 25 April, 2006
Sony
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Number of Media: 1
CD Tracks:
Old Dan Tucker
Jesse James
Mrs. McGrath
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep
John Henry
Erie Canal
Jacob's Ladder
My Oklahoma Home
Eyes On The Prize
Shenandoah
Pay Me My Money Down
We Shall Overcome
Froggie Went A-Courtin'
Buffalo Gals (bonus track)
How Can I Keep From Singing (bonus track)
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| Audio CD Description The premise was simple. Bruce Springsteen invites a dozen or so New York City musicians--packing banjos, fiddles, accordions and the like--to his New Jersey farmhouse for a three-day hootenanny, and tape is rolling. The results are sublime, his 21st album featuring their versions of songs harvested from Springsteen's dog-eared LPs by Pete Seeger. Not all written by Seeger, the songs are how the American folk icon interpreted them, and these organic recordings, with no rehearsals or overdubs, pay tribute with the simplicity and spontaneity he intended. It's not hard to link Springsteen's dissatisfaction with American politics to the protest song "We Shall Overcome" or even the Irish ballad "Mrs. McGrath," where he alters the lyrics to read, "I'd rather have my son as he used to be/Than the King of America and his whole navy." But the beauty of these Seeger Sessions are pieces that underscore the mood of the bandleader, which borders on down-home amusement: the bluegrass outlaw ballad "Jesse James," the Dylanesque "Pay Me My Money Down" and the euphoric "Jacob's Ladder," a gumbo-and-whiskey-fueled romp that could pass for the closing hymn at the Church of Asbury Park. |
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Springsteen's Hootenanny "I got a guitar during the hootenanny phase, in 1963."
Locks up my iMac in the worst way and can't be ejected !! DON"T BUY IT !!!! I am a big fan of Springsteen and his music and I was expecting to love this CD. But I should have read the reviews more carefully. This non-standard CD not only won't play through my G5 iMac but it locked up my computer and could not be ejected EVEN AFTER REBOOTING THE SYSTEM !! I thought I was going to have to get a screwdriver to get it out. This disk will definitely be returned. I hope that Bruce wises up and dumps Sony or whomever chose to release this as a DuoDisk. It's worse than junk - it's DANGEROUS...DON"T BUY IT !!!!
If Springsteen Had Become Dylan Several people have written about the "Springsteen sounding like Dylan" connection in these reviews as well as over the last 30 years when Bruce Springsteen was supposedly being groomed as Bob Dylan's heir apparent. Springsteen hones in on that mark more so with this collection by picking Pete Seeger songs more associated with Seeger than The Weavers...and I'll take that a step further by saying these sound more like Almanac Singers songs (a band that featured Woody Guthrie with Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, both of whom would found The Weavers). Dylan was of course a protege of Guthrie, and here is where I make the connection. It is nice to hear Springsteen do musical nods to songs more politically associated with Pete Seeger such as those he performed in those early days.
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