The Roots Of Peggy Seeger - The First Time Ever
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Peggy Seeger
The Roots Of Peggy Seeger - The First Time Ever
[ Jasmine / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 12 November 2021
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Now well into her eighties, yet still active as a singer, writer and performer, Peggy Seeger is the very epitome of American Folk Music aristocracy. Her father was Charles Louis Seeger Jr., the respected musicologist, composer, teacher and folklorist; her mother was Ruth Porter Crawford, a modernist composer and folklorist, the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship; her older half-brother was Pete Seeger, the celebrated singer, songwriter and social activist.
This 2-CD set, which includes Peggy's original version of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', written for and about her by Ewan McColl, is drawn from fourteen LPs and two EPs, recorded between 1954-62.
Her collaborators include Isla Cameron, Guy Carawan, Alan Lomax, John Cole, Sammy Stokes, her brother Mike and sisters Barbara & Penny Seeger, and of course her husband, Ewan MacColl.
This is the first time that this body of work has been thus compiled, and around a third of these sides are unavailable elsewhere on CD.
Tracks:
Whistle Daughter, Whistle
The Wagoner's Lad
The Old Maid
Raccoon And Possum
The Deer Song
And We Hunted And We Hunted
Cumberland Gap
The Fair Maid By The Shore
The Wife Of Usher's Well
Freight Train
Bring A Little Water Sylvie
Lord Lovel
Skip To My Lou
Train On The Island
Fod
Come Along John
All Around The Kitchen
Billy Barlow
The Cruel War Is Raging
The Mermaid
A Rich Old Miser
Equinoxial And Phoebe
Mary Anne
Hattie Belle
Ridin' In A Buggy
In The Wilderness
Johnson Boys
The Two Sisters
False Lover Won Back
Elfin King
Jimmy Wilson
Lifeboat Mona
The Fireman's Not For Me
There's Better Things To Do
The Space Girl's Song
Come Me Little Son
Pretty Little Baby
I'll Not Marry At All
Young Collins
Brave Wolfe
The Cruel Mother
Old Lady All Skin And Bones
Just As The Tide Was Flowing
Jackaro
March With Us Today
Lullabye For The Times
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
When I Was Young
Little Black Train
Henry Lee
People Go Mind Your Business
The Old Woman And Her Little Pig
Green Valley
Rock An' By The Baby
The Death Of Queen Jane
Girl Of Constant Sorrow
The Dewy Dens Of Yarrow
