Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Tommy Sands & Delores Keane with Vedran Smailovic
2. Kisses Sweeter than Wine - Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt
3. Water Is Wide - John Gorka
4. Of Time and Rivers Flowing - Richie Havens
5. My Name Is Liza Kalvelage - Ani DiFranco
6. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) - Bruce Cockburn
7. Festival of Flowers - Tish Hinojosa
8. Step by Step - Sweet Honey in the Rock
9. Blessed Be the Nation - Studs Terkel
10. My Father's Mansion - Billy Bragg & Eliza Carthy
11. Sailing Down My Golden River - Greg Brown
12. Goofing off Suite - Tony Trischka
13. Those Three Are On My Mind - Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie
14. How Can I Keep from Singing? - Cordelia's Dad
15. All Mixed Up - Peter, Paul and Mary
16. Empty Pocket Blues - Ronnie Gilbert
17. Get Up and Go - Tom Paxton
18. Old Riley - John Stewart
19. If I Had a Hammer - Nanci Griffith
20. Wimoweh - The Weavers

Disc 2:

1. To Everyone in the World - Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
2. Rainbow Race - Donovan
3. Oh, Sacred World - Studs Terkel
4. We Shall Overcome - Bruce Springsteen
5. Bells of Rhymney - Roger McGuinn
6. Oh, Had I a Golden Thread - Judy Collins
7. False from True - Guy Davis
8. Letter to Eve - Indigo Girls
9. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Dick Gaughan
10. All My Children of the Sun - Tim Robbins
11. Living in the Country - Martin Simpson
12. One Grain of Sand - Odetta
13. Old Father Hudson-Sailing Down Dirty Stream - Casey Neill
14. Torn Flag - John Trudell
15. Doublin' - Si Kahn
16. To Everyone in the World - Cathy Fink
17. Over the Hills - Tommy Makem
18. I Come and Stand at Every Door - Anne Hills
19. My Rainbow Race - Donovan
20. Quiet Early Morning - Holly Near
21. Oh, Sacred World
22. And Still I Am Searching - Pete Seeger

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29974 in Music
• Released on: 1998-03-17
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.com essential recording
A pretty stunning group of socially conscious performers (from Bonnie Raitt to Billy Bragg) join in tribute to the inspirational music and life of Pete Seeger on this expansive 2 CD set. The grand selection of songs is well-annotated with notes from the artists and Seeger himself about each piece and its place in the pantheon. Among the many highlights are Bruce Springsteen's heartfelt "We Shall Overcome," John Trudell's tense "Torn Flag," actor Tim Robbins's rap-like "All My Children of the Sun," and Ani DiFranco's quiet, brooding "My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage." Further listening: the Smithsonian/Folkways release of If I Had a Hammer, a remarkable collection of Seeger singing his own songs. --Michael Ruby

Entertainment Weekly
[S]ensitive interpretations by Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Dick Gaughan, and actor Tim Robbins transcend folkie dogma to make an eloquent case for Seeger's stature as a cultural hero.

New York Post, March 17, 1998
"This is a tribute that does itself proud and honors an American musical hero."

Customer Reviews

Yum... whoa... WOW!
You'll hear your favorites on this album, and you'll hear songs new to you that will blow you away.

Besides being a collection of songs honoring Seeger, these are wonderful on their own. Re-release these as singles, and they will be hits in the folk-music circles, and could hold their own on some more popular stations (like Chicago's WXRT).

For me, I loved Studs Terkel reading "Blessed Be the Nation," Jackson Browne/Bonnie Raitt singing, "Kisses Sweeter than Wine," and the deeply haunting "My Father's Mansion" as sung by Billy Bragg and Eliza Carthy in a celtic flavor.

Hearing Donovan's version of "My Rainbow Race" was refreshing, and Dick Gaughan's dramatic rendering of "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" knocked my socks off. Surprising me was Tim Robbins' "All My Children of the Sun." So he can sing, too? Amazing.

Listen to Greg Brown singing "Sailing Down My Golden River." He has a Johnny Cash thing going on when he sings it, don't you think? Check it out. Very cool.

There are others, some 39 songs in all, and each I honestly liked. No duds, no "why did they put that on the album" songs.

I fully recommend this album.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

EXCELLENT!!!!! I LOVE Pete Seeger!
I just heard this 2cd set and am blown away by it! I didn't realize he had written all those songs! I loved the reggae song, and all the others. I work at two libraries. One library had it, and I am going to buy this for my other library, and a copy for me, since it has all the notes from Pete and the artists who sing his songs. EVERYONE should hear this!

What an amazing tribute...
In agreeing with all the other top-star reviews in this list, I want to add that part of what makes Pete Seeger such a treasure is the timelessness of his writing. Reggae Pete? Why not! Like Shakespeare, adapting classics for modern tastes only emphasizes their universality. This tribute makes it clear that Pete's music belongs in the global culture, for all generations present and future to discover and make their own.

On a separate note, I want to direct America-centric readers to the work of Tommy Sands, a great friend of Pete's who sings the title song. North-of-Ireland Irish, Tommy follows in Pete's peace-activist footsteps, and deserves the international recognition he has received for his work... Slàinte!