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1. Cindy 2:30 9. Devilish Mary 1:22 19. Git Along Little Dogies 1:31 All selections recorded in New York (Traditional) (Traditional) (Traditional) The Weavers (tracks 23-25): Pete Seeger, banjo Harmony vocal by Bess Hawes; with Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 and vocal; Fred Hellerman, guitar and vocal; Woody Guthrie, guitar 10. Danville Girl 1:34 20. Penny’s Farm 1:50 Lee Hays & Ronnie Gilbert, vocals Asch 432-4, mx MA 52; recorded c.1944 (Traditional) (Traditional) Transfers & production: David Lennick 2. The Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 Digital noise reduction by K&A Productions Ltd Corn 1:18 11. I Had A Wife 0:40 21. The Jam On Jerry’s Rocks 1:39 (Traditional) Original recordings from the collections of (Traditional) (Traditional) David Lennick and Robert Kent Shirer Stinson SLP 13; recorded c.1944-46 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 3. The Erie Canal 1:35 12. Talking Atom 2:55 22. Come All Fair Maids 2:34 Original monochrome photo of Pete Seeger (Traditional) (Vern Partlow) (Traditional) from Michael Ochs Archives / Redferns Stinson SLP 13; recorded c.1944-46 Encore 101, mx PSE 100; Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 4. Casey Jones 1:55 recorded Spring 1948 23. Wasn’t That A Time 2:59 (Traditional) 13. Newspaper Men 3:12 (Lee Hays–Walter Lowenfels) Harmony vocal, unknown (Vern Partlow) The Weavers Also available ... Disc 607-1B, mx D 140; recorded c.1944 Encore 101, mx PSE 101; Charter 503; recorded c. November 1949 5. Solidarity Forever 2:56 recorded Spring 1948 24. The Hammer Song 2:02 (Ralph Chaplin) 14. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase 2:43 (Lee Hays–Pete Seeger) The Union Boys; with Burl Ives, vocal & (Traditional) The Weavers guitar; and group vocal chorus Charter 500, mx CH 558; Hootenanny 101, mx 101-A; 8.120733* Stinson 627; recorded 11 March 1944 recorded c. November 1948 recorded December 1949 6. U.A.W.–C.I.O. 2:08 15. Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy 0:56 25. Banks Of Marble 2:56 (Baldwin Hawes) (Traditional) (Les Rice) The Union Boys; guitar accompaniment, Charter 500, mx CH 559; The Weavers unidentified; and group chorus recorded c. November 1948 Hootenanny 101, mx 102-A; Asch 346-2; recorded 11 March 1944 16. “T” For Texas 2:07 recorded December 1949 7. Listen, Mr Bilbo 2:42 (Jimmie Rodgers) 26. Banjo Pieces: My Blue-Eyed Gal–Cripple (Bob & Adrienne Claiborne) Charter 500, mx CH 559; Creek–Old Joe Clark–Ida Red 2:42 8.120728* Pete Seeger, Dock Reese, Hally Wood, recorded c. November 1948 (Traditional) Lee Hays, Lou Kleinman Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 Asch 301A; recorded 1946 17. John Riley 2:30 (Traditional) 8. Roll The Union On 2:43 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1950 (Lee Hays–Claude Williams) * Not available in the USA Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Hally Wood, 18. Darling Corey 2:44 Butch Hawes, Dock Reese, Lou Kleinman (Traditional) Asch 302, mx D 584; recorded 1946 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 NAXOS RADIO 40 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia www.naxosradio.com Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality 5 8.120737 6 8.120737 120737bk Pete Seeger 27/4/04 10:30 PM Page 1

PETE SEEGER learn to play the five-string banjo with his many Seeger’s abilities on the banjo have always been offensive terminology. Bob and Adrienne Hays, using classic images from U.S. history to If I Had A Hammer recordings for the Folkways label. As ‘Johnny understated in comparison with his talents as a Claiborne were New Yorkers who took particular show how the HUAC was violating Americans’ Appleseed’, Seeger penned a long-running column singer and performer. But Seeger’s musical offense to Bilbo’s insensitivity and penned the civil rights. The HUAC’s response was to accuse With The Weavers, The Union Boys, Burl Ives & Lee Hays in Sing Out! the folk music Bible that helped versatility on the banjo enabled him to play biting Listen, Mr. Bilbo, explaining how some of Hays and Seeger of ridiculing these American Original Recordings 1944-1950 disseminate folk songs through articles, printed traditional country, blues, classical, jazz, Spanish, America’s most important personages came from events. After he testified before the committee transcriptions, and record reviews. Since Seeger and other ethnic styles with great virtuosity. other lands. The song first appeared in the March (and revealing nothing), Seeger sang Wasn’t That If there was a Mount Rushmore of influential folk out after becoming entranced with folk music could not get any gigs himself, he passed his folk As a youngster learning to play in the late 1946 issue of People’s Songs Bulletin. A Time for the throng of reporters waiting performers, Pete Seeger would be the first one after his father took him to a folk festival in traditions on to others through his column, ’30s, Seeger was especially attracted to records by The gathering storm clouds of the HUAC outside. carved into stone, head raised and singing to the Asheville, North Carolina. In 1938, he hoboed keeping his music alive. Uncle Dave Macon, the grand old man of the inspired Seeger and Lee Hays to pen The Impressions of Pete Seeger are as varied as are heavens. In the more than sixty years since folk around the U.S., riding the rails while meeting In the ’60s, he was banned from appearing on Grand Ole Opry. As a result, Seeger’s first 78 for Hammer Song (aka “If I Had a Hammer”), his talents. Carl Sandburg called him ‘America’s music made its journey from the backwoods, hills, performers such as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, television’s Hootenanny programme, but continued the Charter label featured renditions of two songs written to warn of the dangers to liberty loosed tuning fork’. The Limeliters’ Lou Gottlieb said of and valleys of America to the concrete jungles of and Earl Robinson. His father introduced him to on, joining the peaceniks and protesting the war made famous by Macon, Cumberland Mountain by Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was one of two Seeger, “He was the slickest professional amateur New York City, no one person has had a greater Alan Lomax, and Seeger spent the next two years in Vietnam. In the process, he penned some of the Bear Chase (which Macon recorded as songs issued on the first 78 recorded by the I have ever seen in my life.” Awarded the presti- impact or a more pronounced presence on the learning to play the banjo and studying the vast decade’s best-loved songs, including the Byrds’ “Cumberland Mountain Deer Race”, based on an Weavers in 1949. The other side was Banks of gious Kennedy Center Honor in 1994, Seeger was music than Seeger and his long-necked five-string folk music archives at the Library of Congress. “Turn, Turn, Turn” and “Where Have All the 1850s poem entitled “The Wild Ashe Deer”) and Marble, a song that was triggered by the post- called “the living embodi-ment of America’s banjo. In retrospect, even the monumental When the Almanac Singers were formed Flowers Gone”. Seeger also was responsible for Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (Macon’s first war recession and subsequent rising traditions in folk music.” As the genre’s elder accomplishments of his friend and frequent before World War II, Seeger helped lead and helping transform an ages old hymn (“We Shall hit in 1924). The latter song was paired on one unemployment of 1948. A struggling apple statesman, Seeger has not only outlived all of his musical companion, Woody Guthrie, pale in organize the group, playing at rallies and Overcome”) into the anthem of the anti-war side with Jimmie Rodgers’ “T” for Texas (aka farmer from Newburgh, New York named Les erstwhile roommates in the old Almanac House, comparison with Seeger’s. Although Guthrie contributing pro-union and anti-fascist songs. movement. “Blue Yodel”). Rice wrote the song, which was introduced by but also his vitriolic detractors from the deepest, penned the folk world’s anthem, “This Land is After serving in the army during the war, Seeger Seeger’s dedication toward conservation led Like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger liberally Seeger to a hootenanny audience in New York. In darkest years of the blacklist era. Today, Seeger Your Land,” and was the lightning rod for continued his support for labour unions by to his spearheading the cleanup of the Hudson borrowed melodies from traditional sources. time, members of labour unions would include and his wife of sixty years, Toshi, live modestly in countless aspiring folk singers, it was Seeger who helping to found People’s Songs, the notorious River, which he counts as one of his proudest Solidarity Forever featured words by Ralph their own verses describing other wretched a house he built himself in upstate New York. transcended Guthrie’s era and others that came leftist organization of the late ’40s. During this achievements. Through all these years, Seeger Chaplain, one of the early leaders of the I.W.W. working conditions among laborers. In his autobiography, Seeger told a story that after it; writing, performing, teaching, preaching, time, Seeger rode the campaign trail with Henry soldiered on, and today, in his mid-80s, he is the (The Industrial Workers of the World, commonly Talking Atom (aka “Talking Atomic Blues”) summed up his own ever-positive personality and reviving folk traditions, and then ensuring their Wallace and after the demise of People’s Songs, patron saint of folk music. He has outlived known as the ‘Wobblies’). Burl Ives sings Chap- was written by a Los Angeles newspaperman attitude towards life. As he tells it, there was a perpetuation. If there was a cause, be it musical, helped organize the Weavers, the group that set Guthrie by more than three decades, yet modestly lain’s lyrics to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the named Vern Partlow. Performed in the style of small peace demonstration in Times Square that populist, or conservationist, you could count on the standard for the oncoming ‘folk music dismisses his role as America’s folk laureate. Republic” which is followed by Seeger’s talking Woody Guthrie’s “Talking Dust Bowl Blues” consisted of a young Quaker carrying a sign. A Seeger to be there, singing out his support. He is revival’. The Weavers soon became victims of the During his long career, Pete Seeger has blues verses. The song became popular on scores (itself a take on Chris Bouchillon’s original passerby ridiculed him and queried, “Do you as American as Abraham Lincoln in his nobility, blacklist, which all but destroyed their careers in managed to deftly juggle traditional folk ballads of picket lines. Ironically, Ives would violate the “Talking Blues” from 1926), the song was think you’re going to change the world by stand- his love for his country, and his relentless support the early 1950s. In 1955, Seeger himself became a and instrumentals with topical and political songs concept of solidarity by not only cooperating with discovered by singer Sam Hinton in a 1947 issue ing here at midnight with that sign?” The young of the rights of the individual. martyr when he invoked the Fifth Amendment, that were both timely as well as powerful. We the HUAC in 1952, but also fingering many of his of People’s Songs Bulletin. Partlow ended up being man replied calmly, “I suppose not. But I’m going A member of an esteemed family of musicians refusing to answer any questions posed by the have included a generous and balanced sampling fellow folk singers, including Seeger, as having targeted himself by the HUAC, got fired from his to make sure the world doesn’t change me.” and folklorists, Seeger was born on 3 May 1919 HUAC (House Un-American Activities of these on this CD. Songs in the former category attended Communist supported functions. job, and ended his days working in a paper box in New York City. His father, Charles, was a noted Committee) about his political background. include the country dance tune Cindy, the cowboy Theodore Bilbo (1877-1947) was a senator factory in Colorado. – Cary Ginell (folklorist, radio broadcaster, and ethnomusicologist; his mother, a concert violinist. Surviving the Communist witch-hunts, Seeger song Git Along Little Dogies, and a medley of and former governor of Mississippi who, in 1945, Another early Weavers song, Wasn’t That a award-winning author of four books on American Seeger attended college at Harvard, but dropped inspired thousands of would-be musicians to instrumentals played on the banjo (Banjo Pieces). wrote letters to constituents using racially Time, was written by Walter Lowenfels and Lee music. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California)

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PETE SEEGER learn to play the five-string banjo with his many Seeger’s abilities on the banjo have always been offensive terminology. Bob and Adrienne Hays, using classic images from U.S. history to If I Had A Hammer recordings for the Folkways label. As ‘Johnny understated in comparison with his talents as a Claiborne were New Yorkers who took particular show how the HUAC was violating Americans’ Appleseed’, Seeger penned a long-running column singer and performer. But Seeger’s musical offense to Bilbo’s insensitivity and penned the civil rights. The HUAC’s response was to accuse With The Weavers, The Union Boys, Burl Ives & Lee Hays in Sing Out! the folk music Bible that helped versatility on the banjo enabled him to play biting Listen, Mr. Bilbo, explaining how some of Hays and Seeger of ridiculing these American Original Recordings 1944-1950 disseminate folk songs through articles, printed traditional country, blues, classical, jazz, Spanish, America’s most important personages came from events. After he testified before the committee transcriptions, and record reviews. Since Seeger and other ethnic styles with great virtuosity. other lands. The song first appeared in the March (and revealing nothing), Seeger sang Wasn’t That If there was a Mount Rushmore of influential folk out after becoming entranced with folk music could not get any gigs himself, he passed his folk As a youngster learning to play in the late 1946 issue of People’s Songs Bulletin. A Time for the throng of reporters waiting performers, Pete Seeger would be the first one after his father took him to a folk festival in traditions on to others through his column, ’30s, Seeger was especially attracted to records by The gathering storm clouds of the HUAC outside. carved into stone, head raised and singing to the Asheville, North Carolina. In 1938, he hoboed keeping his music alive. Uncle Dave Macon, the grand old man of the inspired Seeger and Lee Hays to pen The Impressions of Pete Seeger are as varied as are heavens. In the more than sixty years since folk around the U.S., riding the rails while meeting In the ’60s, he was banned from appearing on Grand Ole Opry. As a result, Seeger’s first 78 for Hammer Song (aka “If I Had a Hammer”), his talents. Carl Sandburg called him ‘America’s music made its journey from the backwoods, hills, performers such as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, television’s Hootenanny programme, but continued the Charter label featured renditions of two songs written to warn of the dangers to liberty loosed tuning fork’. The Limeliters’ Lou Gottlieb said of and valleys of America to the concrete jungles of and Earl Robinson. His father introduced him to on, joining the peaceniks and protesting the war made famous by Macon, Cumberland Mountain by Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was one of two Seeger, “He was the slickest professional amateur New York City, no one person has had a greater Alan Lomax, and Seeger spent the next two years in Vietnam. In the process, he penned some of the Bear Chase (which Macon recorded as songs issued on the first 78 recorded by the I have ever seen in my life.” Awarded the presti- impact or a more pronounced presence on the learning to play the banjo and studying the vast decade’s best-loved songs, including the Byrds’ “Cumberland Mountain Deer Race”, based on an Weavers in 1949. The other side was Banks of gious Kennedy Center Honor in 1994, Seeger was music than Seeger and his long-necked five-string folk music archives at the Library of Congress. “Turn, Turn, Turn” and “Where Have All the 1850s poem entitled “The Wild Ashe Deer”) and Marble, a song that was triggered by the post- called “the living embodi-ment of America’s banjo. In retrospect, even the monumental When the Almanac Singers were formed Flowers Gone”. Seeger also was responsible for Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (Macon’s first war recession and subsequent rising traditions in folk music.” As the genre’s elder accomplishments of his friend and frequent before World War II, Seeger helped lead and helping transform an ages old hymn (“We Shall hit in 1924). The latter song was paired on one unemployment of 1948. A struggling apple statesman, Seeger has not only outlived all of his musical companion, Woody Guthrie, pale in organize the group, playing at rallies and Overcome”) into the anthem of the anti-war side with Jimmie Rodgers’ “T” for Texas (aka farmer from Newburgh, New York named Les erstwhile roommates in the old Almanac House, comparison with Seeger’s. Although Guthrie contributing pro-union and anti-fascist songs. movement. “Blue Yodel”). Rice wrote the song, which was introduced by but also his vitriolic detractors from the deepest, penned the folk world’s anthem, “This Land is After serving in the army during the war, Seeger Seeger’s dedication toward conservation led Like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger liberally Seeger to a hootenanny audience in New York. In darkest years of the blacklist era. Today, Seeger Your Land,” and was the lightning rod for continued his support for labour unions by to his spearheading the cleanup of the Hudson borrowed melodies from traditional sources. time, members of labour unions would include and his wife of sixty years, Toshi, live modestly in countless aspiring folk singers, it was Seeger who helping to found People’s Songs, the notorious River, which he counts as one of his proudest Solidarity Forever featured words by Ralph their own verses describing other wretched a house he built himself in upstate New York. transcended Guthrie’s era and others that came leftist organization of the late ’40s. During this achievements. Through all these years, Seeger Chaplain, one of the early leaders of the I.W.W. working conditions among laborers. In his autobiography, Seeger told a story that after it; writing, performing, teaching, preaching, time, Seeger rode the campaign trail with Henry soldiered on, and today, in his mid-80s, he is the (The Industrial Workers of the World, commonly Talking Atom (aka “Talking Atomic Blues”) summed up his own ever-positive personality and reviving folk traditions, and then ensuring their Wallace and after the demise of People’s Songs, patron saint of folk music. He has outlived known as the ‘Wobblies’). Burl Ives sings Chap- was written by a Los Angeles newspaperman attitude towards life. As he tells it, there was a perpetuation. If there was a cause, be it musical, helped organize the Weavers, the group that set Guthrie by more than three decades, yet modestly lain’s lyrics to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the named Vern Partlow. Performed in the style of small peace demonstration in Times Square that populist, or conservationist, you could count on the standard for the oncoming ‘folk music dismisses his role as America’s folk laureate. Republic” which is followed by Seeger’s talking Woody Guthrie’s “Talking Dust Bowl Blues” consisted of a young Quaker carrying a sign. A Seeger to be there, singing out his support. He is revival’. The Weavers soon became victims of the During his long career, Pete Seeger has blues verses. The song became popular on scores (itself a take on Chris Bouchillon’s original passerby ridiculed him and queried, “Do you as American as Abraham Lincoln in his nobility, blacklist, which all but destroyed their careers in managed to deftly juggle traditional folk ballads of picket lines. Ironically, Ives would violate the “Talking Blues” from 1926), the song was think you’re going to change the world by stand- his love for his country, and his relentless support the early 1950s. In 1955, Seeger himself became a and instrumentals with topical and political songs concept of solidarity by not only cooperating with discovered by singer Sam Hinton in a 1947 issue ing here at midnight with that sign?” The young of the rights of the individual. martyr when he invoked the Fifth Amendment, that were both timely as well as powerful. We the HUAC in 1952, but also fingering many of his of People’s Songs Bulletin. Partlow ended up being man replied calmly, “I suppose not. But I’m going A member of an esteemed family of musicians refusing to answer any questions posed by the have included a generous and balanced sampling fellow folk singers, including Seeger, as having targeted himself by the HUAC, got fired from his to make sure the world doesn’t change me.” and folklorists, Seeger was born on 3 May 1919 HUAC (House Un-American Activities of these on this CD. Songs in the former category attended Communist supported functions. job, and ended his days working in a paper box in New York City. His father, Charles, was a noted Committee) about his political background. include the country dance tune Cindy, the cowboy Theodore Bilbo (1877-1947) was a senator factory in Colorado. – Cary Ginell (folklorist, radio broadcaster, and ethnomusicologist; his mother, a concert violinist. Surviving the Communist witch-hunts, Seeger song Git Along Little Dogies, and a medley of and former governor of Mississippi who, in 1945, Another early Weavers song, Wasn’t That a award-winning author of four books on American Seeger attended college at Harvard, but dropped inspired thousands of would-be musicians to instrumentals played on the banjo (Banjo Pieces). wrote letters to constituents using racially Time, was written by Walter Lowenfels and Lee music. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California)

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PETE SEEGER learn to play the five-string banjo with his many Seeger’s abilities on the banjo have always been offensive terminology. Bob and Adrienne Hays, using classic images from U.S. history to If I Had A Hammer recordings for the Folkways label. As ‘Johnny understated in comparison with his talents as a Claiborne were New Yorkers who took particular show how the HUAC was violating Americans’ Appleseed’, Seeger penned a long-running column singer and performer. But Seeger’s musical offense to Bilbo’s insensitivity and penned the civil rights. The HUAC’s response was to accuse With The Weavers, The Union Boys, Burl Ives & Lee Hays in Sing Out! the folk music Bible that helped versatility on the banjo enabled him to play biting Listen, Mr. Bilbo, explaining how some of Hays and Seeger of ridiculing these American Original Recordings 1944-1950 disseminate folk songs through articles, printed traditional country, blues, classical, jazz, Spanish, America’s most important personages came from events. After he testified before the committee transcriptions, and record reviews. Since Seeger and other ethnic styles with great virtuosity. other lands. The song first appeared in the March (and revealing nothing), Seeger sang Wasn’t That If there was a Mount Rushmore of influential folk out after becoming entranced with folk music could not get any gigs himself, he passed his folk As a youngster learning to play in the late 1946 issue of People’s Songs Bulletin. A Time for the throng of reporters waiting performers, Pete Seeger would be the first one after his father took him to a folk festival in traditions on to others through his column, ’30s, Seeger was especially attracted to records by The gathering storm clouds of the HUAC outside. carved into stone, head raised and singing to the Asheville, North Carolina. In 1938, he hoboed keeping his music alive. Uncle Dave Macon, the grand old man of the inspired Seeger and Lee Hays to pen The Impressions of Pete Seeger are as varied as are heavens. In the more than sixty years since folk around the U.S., riding the rails while meeting In the ’60s, he was banned from appearing on Grand Ole Opry. As a result, Seeger’s first 78 for Hammer Song (aka “If I Had a Hammer”), his talents. Carl Sandburg called him ‘America’s music made its journey from the backwoods, hills, performers such as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, television’s Hootenanny programme, but continued the Charter label featured renditions of two songs written to warn of the dangers to liberty loosed tuning fork’. The Limeliters’ Lou Gottlieb said of and valleys of America to the concrete jungles of and Earl Robinson. His father introduced him to on, joining the peaceniks and protesting the war made famous by Macon, Cumberland Mountain by Senator Joseph McCarthy. It was one of two Seeger, “He was the slickest professional amateur New York City, no one person has had a greater Alan Lomax, and Seeger spent the next two years in Vietnam. In the process, he penned some of the Bear Chase (which Macon recorded as songs issued on the first 78 recorded by the I have ever seen in my life.” Awarded the presti- impact or a more pronounced presence on the learning to play the banjo and studying the vast decade’s best-loved songs, including the Byrds’ “Cumberland Mountain Deer Race”, based on an Weavers in 1949. The other side was Banks of gious Kennedy Center Honor in 1994, Seeger was music than Seeger and his long-necked five-string folk music archives at the Library of Congress. “Turn, Turn, Turn” and “Where Have All the 1850s poem entitled “The Wild Ashe Deer”) and Marble, a song that was triggered by the post- called “the living embodi-ment of America’s banjo. In retrospect, even the monumental When the Almanac Singers were formed Flowers Gone”. Seeger also was responsible for Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (Macon’s first war recession and subsequent rising traditions in folk music.” As the genre’s elder accomplishments of his friend and frequent before World War II, Seeger helped lead and helping transform an ages old hymn (“We Shall hit in 1924). The latter song was paired on one unemployment of 1948. A struggling apple statesman, Seeger has not only outlived all of his musical companion, Woody Guthrie, pale in organize the group, playing at rallies and Overcome”) into the anthem of the anti-war side with Jimmie Rodgers’ “T” for Texas (aka farmer from Newburgh, New York named Les erstwhile roommates in the old Almanac House, comparison with Seeger’s. Although Guthrie contributing pro-union and anti-fascist songs. movement. “Blue Yodel”). Rice wrote the song, which was introduced by but also his vitriolic detractors from the deepest, penned the folk world’s anthem, “This Land is After serving in the army during the war, Seeger Seeger’s dedication toward conservation led Like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger liberally Seeger to a hootenanny audience in New York. In darkest years of the blacklist era. Today, Seeger Your Land,” and was the lightning rod for continued his support for labour unions by to his spearheading the cleanup of the Hudson borrowed melodies from traditional sources. time, members of labour unions would include and his wife of sixty years, Toshi, live modestly in countless aspiring folk singers, it was Seeger who helping to found People’s Songs, the notorious River, which he counts as one of his proudest Solidarity Forever featured words by Ralph their own verses describing other wretched a house he built himself in upstate New York. transcended Guthrie’s era and others that came leftist organization of the late ’40s. During this achievements. Through all these years, Seeger Chaplain, one of the early leaders of the I.W.W. working conditions among laborers. In his autobiography, Seeger told a story that after it; writing, performing, teaching, preaching, time, Seeger rode the campaign trail with Henry soldiered on, and today, in his mid-80s, he is the (The Industrial Workers of the World, commonly Talking Atom (aka “Talking Atomic Blues”) summed up his own ever-positive personality and reviving folk traditions, and then ensuring their Wallace and after the demise of People’s Songs, patron saint of folk music. He has outlived known as the ‘Wobblies’). Burl Ives sings Chap- was written by a Los Angeles newspaperman attitude towards life. As he tells it, there was a perpetuation. If there was a cause, be it musical, helped organize the Weavers, the group that set Guthrie by more than three decades, yet modestly lain’s lyrics to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the named Vern Partlow. Performed in the style of small peace demonstration in Times Square that populist, or conservationist, you could count on the standard for the oncoming ‘folk music dismisses his role as America’s folk laureate. Republic” which is followed by Seeger’s talking Woody Guthrie’s “Talking Dust Bowl Blues” consisted of a young Quaker carrying a sign. A Seeger to be there, singing out his support. He is revival’. The Weavers soon became victims of the During his long career, Pete Seeger has blues verses. The song became popular on scores (itself a take on Chris Bouchillon’s original passerby ridiculed him and queried, “Do you as American as Abraham Lincoln in his nobility, blacklist, which all but destroyed their careers in managed to deftly juggle traditional folk ballads of picket lines. Ironically, Ives would violate the “Talking Blues” from 1926), the song was think you’re going to change the world by stand- his love for his country, and his relentless support the early 1950s. In 1955, Seeger himself became a and instrumentals with topical and political songs concept of solidarity by not only cooperating with discovered by singer Sam Hinton in a 1947 issue ing here at midnight with that sign?” The young of the rights of the individual. martyr when he invoked the Fifth Amendment, that were both timely as well as powerful. We the HUAC in 1952, but also fingering many of his of People’s Songs Bulletin. Partlow ended up being man replied calmly, “I suppose not. But I’m going A member of an esteemed family of musicians refusing to answer any questions posed by the have included a generous and balanced sampling fellow folk singers, including Seeger, as having targeted himself by the HUAC, got fired from his to make sure the world doesn’t change me.” and folklorists, Seeger was born on 3 May 1919 HUAC (House Un-American Activities of these on this CD. Songs in the former category attended Communist supported functions. job, and ended his days working in a paper box in New York City. His father, Charles, was a noted Committee) about his political background. include the country dance tune Cindy, the cowboy Theodore Bilbo (1877-1947) was a senator factory in Colorado. – Cary Ginell (folklorist, radio broadcaster, and ethnomusicologist; his mother, a concert violinist. Surviving the Communist witch-hunts, Seeger song Git Along Little Dogies, and a medley of and former governor of Mississippi who, in 1945, Another early Weavers song, Wasn’t That a award-winning author of four books on American Seeger attended college at Harvard, but dropped inspired thousands of would-be musicians to instrumentals played on the banjo (Banjo Pieces). wrote letters to constituents using racially Time, was written by Walter Lowenfels and Lee music. He lives in Thousand Oaks, California)

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1. Cindy 2:30 9. Devilish Mary 1:22 19. Git Along Little Dogies 1:31 All selections recorded in New York (Traditional) (Traditional) (Traditional) The Weavers (tracks 23-25): Pete Seeger, banjo Harmony vocal by Bess Hawes; with Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 and vocal; Fred Hellerman, guitar and vocal; Woody Guthrie, guitar 10. Danville Girl 1:34 20. Penny’s Farm 1:50 Lee Hays & Ronnie Gilbert, vocals Asch 432-4, mx MA 52; recorded c.1944 (Traditional) (Traditional) Transfers & production: David Lennick 2. The Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 Digital noise reduction by K&A Productions Ltd Corn 1:18 11. I Had A Wife 0:40 21. The Jam On Jerry’s Rocks 1:39 (Traditional) Original recordings from the collections of (Traditional) (Traditional) David Lennick and Robert Kent Shirer Stinson SLP 13; recorded c.1944-46 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 3. The Erie Canal 1:35 12. Talking Atom 2:55 22. Come All Fair Maids 2:34 Original monochrome photo of Pete Seeger (Traditional) (Vern Partlow) (Traditional) from Michael Ochs Archives / Redferns Stinson SLP 13; recorded c.1944-46 Encore 101, mx PSE 100; Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 4. Casey Jones 1:55 recorded Spring 1948 23. Wasn’t That A Time 2:59 (Traditional) 13. Newspaper Men 3:12 (Lee Hays–Walter Lowenfels) Harmony vocal, unknown (Vern Partlow) The Weavers Also available ... Disc 607-1B, mx D 140; recorded c.1944 Encore 101, mx PSE 101; Charter 503; recorded c. November 1949 5. Solidarity Forever 2:56 recorded Spring 1948 24. The Hammer Song 2:02 (Ralph Chaplin) 14. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase 2:43 (Lee Hays–Pete Seeger) The Union Boys; with Burl Ives, vocal & (Traditional) The Weavers guitar; and group vocal chorus Charter 500, mx CH 558; Hootenanny 101, mx 101-A; 8.120733* Stinson 627; recorded 11 March 1944 recorded c. November 1948 recorded December 1949 6. U.A.W.–C.I.O. 2:08 15. Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy 0:56 25. Banks Of Marble 2:56 (Baldwin Hawes) (Traditional) (Les Rice) The Union Boys; guitar accompaniment, Charter 500, mx CH 559; The Weavers unidentified; and group chorus recorded c. November 1948 Hootenanny 101, mx 102-A; Asch 346-2; recorded 11 March 1944 16. “T” For Texas 2:07 recorded December 1949 7. Listen, Mr Bilbo 2:42 (Jimmie Rodgers) 26. Banjo Pieces: My Blue-Eyed Gal–Cripple (Bob & Adrienne Claiborne) Charter 500, mx CH 559; Creek–Old Joe Clark–Ida Red 2:42 8.120728* Pete Seeger, Dock Reese, Hally Wood, recorded c. November 1948 (Traditional) Lee Hays, Lou Kleinman Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 Asch 301A; recorded 1946 17. John Riley 2:30 (Traditional) 8. Roll The Union On 2:43 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1950 (Lee Hays–Claude Williams) * Not available in the USA Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Hally Wood, 18. Darling Corey 2:44 Butch Hawes, Dock Reese, Lou Kleinman (Traditional) Asch 302, mx D 584; recorded 1946 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 NAXOS RADIO 40 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia www.naxosradio.com Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality 5 8.120737 6 8.120737 120737bk Pete Seeger 27/4/04 10:31 PM Page 2

1. Cindy 2:30 9. Devilish Mary 1:22 19. Git Along Little Dogies 1:31 All selections recorded in New York (Traditional) (Traditional) (Traditional) The Weavers (tracks 23-25): Pete Seeger, banjo Harmony vocal by Bess Hawes; with Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 and vocal; Fred Hellerman, guitar and vocal; Woody Guthrie, guitar 10. Danville Girl 1:34 20. Penny’s Farm 1:50 Lee Hays & Ronnie Gilbert, vocals Asch 432-4, mx MA 52; recorded c.1944 (Traditional) (Traditional) Transfers & production: David Lennick 2. The Young Man Who Wouldn’t Hoe Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 Digital noise reduction by K&A Productions Ltd Corn 1:18 11. I Had A Wife 0:40 21. The Jam On Jerry’s Rocks 1:39 (Traditional) Original recordings from the collections of (Traditional) (Traditional) David Lennick and Robert Kent Shirer Stinson SLP 13; recorded c.1944-46 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 3. The Erie Canal 1:35 12. Talking Atom 2:55 22. Come All Fair Maids 2:34 Original monochrome photo of Pete Seeger (Traditional) (Vern Partlow) (Traditional) from Michael Ochs Archives / Redferns Stinson SLP 13; recorded c.1944-46 Encore 101, mx PSE 100; Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 4. Casey Jones 1:55 recorded Spring 1948 23. Wasn’t That A Time 2:59 (Traditional) 13. Newspaper Men 3:12 (Lee Hays–Walter Lowenfels) Harmony vocal, unknown (Vern Partlow) The Weavers Also available ... Disc 607-1B, mx D 140; recorded c.1944 Encore 101, mx PSE 101; Charter 503; recorded c. November 1949 5. Solidarity Forever 2:56 recorded Spring 1948 24. The Hammer Song 2:02 (Ralph Chaplin) 14. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase 2:43 (Lee Hays–Pete Seeger) The Union Boys; with Burl Ives, vocal & (Traditional) The Weavers guitar; and group vocal chorus Charter 500, mx CH 558; Hootenanny 101, mx 101-A; 8.120733* Stinson 627; recorded 11 March 1944 recorded c. November 1948 recorded December 1949 6. U.A.W.–C.I.O. 2:08 15. Keep My Skillet Good And Greasy 0:56 25. Banks Of Marble 2:56 (Baldwin Hawes) (Traditional) (Les Rice) The Union Boys; guitar accompaniment, Charter 500, mx CH 559; The Weavers unidentified; and group chorus recorded c. November 1948 Hootenanny 101, mx 102-A; Asch 346-2; recorded 11 March 1944 16. “T” For Texas 2:07 recorded December 1949 7. Listen, Mr Bilbo 2:42 (Jimmie Rodgers) 26. Banjo Pieces: My Blue-Eyed Gal–Cripple (Bob & Adrienne Claiborne) Charter 500, mx CH 559; Creek–Old Joe Clark–Ida Red 2:42 8.120728* Pete Seeger, Dock Reese, Hally Wood, recorded c. November 1948 (Traditional) Lee Hays, Lou Kleinman Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947-50 Asch 301A; recorded 1946 17. John Riley 2:30 (Traditional) 8. Roll The Union On 2:43 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1950 (Lee Hays–Claude Williams) * Not available in the USA Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Hally Wood, 18. Darling Corey 2:44 Butch Hawes, Dock Reese, Lou Kleinman (Traditional) Asch 302, mx D 584; recorded 1946 Folkways FP 3; recorded c.1947 NAXOS RADIO 40 Channels of Classical Music • Jazz, Folk/World, Nostalgia www.naxosradio.com Accessible Anywhere, Anytime • Near-CD Quality 5 8.120737 6 8.120737 PETE SEEGER If I Had A Hammer 8.120737 The Weavers, TheUnionBoys, Ives Burl andLeeHays 1944-1950Original Recordingswith SEEGER PETE www.naxosradio.com NAXOS RADIO www. NOTES ANDFULLRECORDING DETAILS INCLUDED ProductionsLtd NoiseReduction byK&A Digital Transfers andProductionbyDavid Lennick h 3 NewspaperMen 13. Talking Atom 12. DanvilleGirl 10. 11. I Had A Wife IHadAWife 11. 9. Devilish Mary DevilishMary 9. RollTheUnionOn 8. Listen,MrBilbo 7. U.A.W.–C.I.O. 6. SolidarityForever 5. CaseyJones 4. TheErieCanal 3. TheYoung ManWhoWouldn’t Hoe 2. .Cindy 1. & g Corn 04NxsRgt nentoa t Design:RonHoares 2004 NaxosRightsInternationalLtd naxos.com 1:18 2:30 1:55 1:34 0:40 Accessible Anywhere,Anytime•Near-CD Quality 40 ChannelsofClassicalMusic•Jazz,Folk/World, Nostalgia 2:55 1:22 1:35 2:08 2:42 3:12 2:56 2:43 Made intheEU I a Hammer” HadA “If I 5 BanksOfMarble 25. TheHammerSong 24. Wasn’t ThatATime 23. ComeAllFair Maids 22. Penny’s Farm 20. GitAlongLittleDogies 19. Darling Corey 18. JohnRiley 17. ForTexas “T” 16. KeepMy SkilletGoodAndGreasy 15. BearChase Cumberland Mountain 14. 6 Banjo Pieces (MyBlue-Eyed Gal—Cripple 26. 21. The Jam On Jerry’s Rocks TheJamOn Jerry’s 21. Creek—Old Joe Clark—Ida Red) Creek—Old JoeClark—Ida 56:47 Total Time 2:30 1:50 2:44 2:08 The Weavers The Weavers The Weavers 2:34 1:31 1:39 2:56 8.120737 2:02 2:42 2:59

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