Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Audience
2. Banjo Medley: Cripple Creek/Old Joe Clark/Leather Britches
3. Lady Margaret
4. Mrs. McGrath
5. Mail Myself to You
6. My Rambling Boy
7. Little Brand New Baby
8. What Did You Learn in School Today?
9. Little Boxes
10. Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
11. Who Killed Norma Jean?
12. Who Killed Davey Moore?
13. Farewell (Fare Thee Well)
14. Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
15. Didn't He Ramble [Fragment]
16. Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
17. If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus
18. I Ain't Scared of Your Jail
19. Oh, Freedom

Disc 2:

1. Audience
2. Skip to My Lou
3. Sweet Potatoes
4. Deep Blue Sea
5. Sea of Misery [Fragment]
6. Oh Louisiana
7. Johnny Give Me
8. Oh, What a Beautiful City!
9. Lua de Sertao (Moon of the Backland)
10. Misirlou
11. Polyushke Polye (Meadowlands)
12. Genbaku O Yurusumagi (Never Again the a Bomb)
13. Schtille Di Nacht (Quiet Is the Night)
14. Viva la Quince Brigada (Long Live the Fifteenth Brigade)
15. Tshotsholosa (Road Song)
16. This Land Is Your Land
17. From Way up Here
18. We Shall Overcome
19. Mister Tom Hughes' Town
20. Bring Me Li'l Water, Silvy
21. Guantanamera

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21218 in Music
• Released on: 1989-10-10
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

Amazon.com essential recording
Pete Seeger, who began recording in the early 1940s, is perhaps the most influential figure in the American folk revival, a walking repository of song who's had an immense influence in popularizing folk music with mainstream audiences. The 2 CD We Shall Overcome is an expanded version of a classic 1963 live album that offers an excellent example of Seeger's activist passion and good-humored humanity. This expanded edition contains the entire 40-song concert, making it almost three times longer than the original vinyl incarnation. The typically eclectic and heartfelt program, encompassing civil-rights anthems and anti-war pleas, along with tunes from England, Russia, Brazil, and the Caribbean, provides an excellent introduction to the artist. --Scott Schinder

Customer Reviews

There's room for this in everyone's CD case
Pete Seeger is a mirror: you see yourself in him. If you're a child, you latch onto his easygoing voice and the humor evident in tunes like "A Little Brand New Baby" and "Little Boxes." If you're a teenager, you cling to the drama in "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "Who Killed Norma Jean?" If you're an adult--younger or elderly--you can appreciate the joy in life evinced by Seeger on every song on the album. It brings tears to my eyes nearly every time I listen to "Tshotsholosa," a Rhodesian road worker's song. Seeger's gift is to make every song a proclamation of the beauty of life and the wonder of other people. He is endlessly curious and polymathic--songs on this album include the traditional and the new, the English and the Portuguese, the German and the Spanish, the despairing and the overjoyed. Think of this album as a wistfully lovely time capsule in the few months before the 1960s finally exploded. It was recorded just five months before the assassination of JFK (one of Seeger's Harvard classmates) and just five years before the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. It simultaneously bears the innocent stamp of the 1950s without that decade's plastic falsity--and the righteous indignation of the 1960s without the tang of defeat that accompanied so many other things from that era.

Time Capsual
Wow. 1963. Pete Seeger. According to "Music Hound's Guide to Folk", Seeger was in his prime when he performed this concert at Carnegie Hall. I'll say he was. He finds the emotion and fun in every song he sings and lets his voice soar. If he hasn't completely blown you away before, this recording will. This is the entire un-cut concert with audience applause, Pete's introductions (and mistakes), and it runs for over 2 hours. It's not the same as being there but it's pretty darn close. Listen to it on the best system you can find, make your self comfortable and transport back in time to 1963. This is why Pete Seeger is the Father of modern Folk.

The Best Folk Singer Ever!
Pete Seeger is the most essential folk artist ever. This album proves that. It starts off with Seeger and his banjo, but moves quickly to the songs that made him popular. He also does a few Bob Dylan tunes, including a wonderful version of "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall." The second disc includes many familiar songs, including "This Land Is Your Land," "We Shall Overcome," and his signature song "Guantanamera." It also includes a number of introductions and conversation with the audience. The original album only had a small portion of this concert. Having the whole show enables a person to hear the magic. Simply one of the best folk albums ever released.