The Essential Pete Seeger is an odd compilation. Pete Seeger usually recorded for Folkways and Columbia, but this collection, recorded between 1950 and 1974, comes from Vanguard's vaults. Many of the songs, including "The Bells of Rhymney," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," and "Wimoweh," have long been associated with either Seeger or his group, the Weavers. He's also frequently performed numbers like "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies," "I Shall Not Be Moved," and "Oh What a Beautiful City." But other essentials like "The Hammer Song" and "Turn, Turn, Turn" — perhaps his most essential songs — haven't been included. It isn't that The Essential Pete Seeger is a bad collection. Its 23 selections and 65-minute running time are generous, and a number of tracks — "Coal Creek March" and "The Bourgeois Blues" — were recorded before vibrant live audiences (perhaps at the Newport Folk Festival). The overall selection, however, is lackluster. Milquetoast versions of "East Virginia," "Saint James Hospital," and "John Hardy" sound like outtakes from an overlong box set. For those unfamiliar with Seeger or searching for a more representative collection of his songs, either American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 or Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits will serve as solid choices.

Recorded during the heart of the great "folk song revival" of the 1950s and 1960s, Pete Seeger's American Favorite Ballads was and is a classic series of albums. Ballads contains definitive bits of Americana that have been a part of our lives for more than a half century, including songs like "This Land is Your Land," "America the Beautiful," "John Henry," and "Shenandoah." This CD is the first in a series of Ballad reissues, and essential for any fan of American folk music to own. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon.

This colection demonstrates Seeger's interest in and respect for workers of all stripes. It's a wonderful record.

A wonderful collection of story songs, including the famous saga of the kindly giant Abiyoyo. Parents and kids can follow along with the complete text in the enclosed booklet. "An essential collection." - Record Roundup

戴維·范·洛克 是一位美國民謠歌手。在1960年代，他是美國民間音樂復興和紐約市格林威治村的一個重要人物，被稱為「麥克杜格爾街市長」。 戴維·范·洛克的作品包括古老英國民謠，藍調，福音，搖滾，紐奧良爵士樂和搖擺樂。

For nearly 60 years Pete Seeger, with his banjo and 12-string guitar, has made music which inspires people to improve their lives and world. Selections on this anthology, culled from the hundreds Seeger recorded for Folkways Records between 1955 and 1999, include concert and studio recordings about prominent events and themes of the twentieth century: the Spanish Civil War, union organizing, and the civil rights and antiwar movements. Eleven previously unreleased tracks (one recorded in 1999). 74 minutes.

This is a live double CD recorded during a series of concerts in 1975. In the words of Harold Leventhal (Sometime manager of Pete, Arlo and Woody), "It took only two phone calls to get Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie to agree to perform together in concert. I rang Pete. "Listen, how about you and Arlo doing some concerts together?" Pete didn’t hesitate, "Sure," he quickly replied. I then dialed Arlo. "Say, Arlo, how about you and Pete doing some concerts together?" His reply was as prompt as Pete’s. So concerts were lined up for New York, Chicago, Montreal, Boston, Denver and Tanglewood.
"Now the big problem was to get Pete and Arlo to meet, to decide on a program and to rehearse. Arlo hates to travel beyond the border of Berkshire County in Massachusetts and Pete is traveling all over the country doing benefits. Luckily, just one week before the first concert in Carnegie Hall, Arlo escaped from his farm and found his way to Pete’s place in Beacon, New York. They spent a couple of hours together, decided on a program, ran through a couple of songs…and they were ready.
"Pete Seeger had been singing with a Guthrie for some 35 years. Back in 1940, Woody Guthrie and Pete traveled cross country singing their way from state to state, and until the early 1950s Woody and Pete often shared singing in a union hall or at a political rally. In the mid-1960s, as Arlo became a "professional" singer, he was also beginning to share the same platform or concert hall with Pete, as they both participated at peace demonstrations or sang for the Farm Workers Union. The Seeger-Guthrie Union keeps going.
"There is no gap in the two generations of singers heard on this record. Rather, the music and songs express a continuity of understanding and a reflection of the world as it is and has been. The audience at these concerts- those who were lucky enough to get tickets- spanned several generations: grandfathers and grandmothers with their grandchildren, workers and students, young and old. A New York reviewer perhaps best summed up when he wrote,"It is another time, but the need for the Seegers and Guthries of whatever generation remains."