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Шœµÿ:¿ ^K{Vu Zp%'Ъє 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 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.
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