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Now well into her eighties, yet still active as a singer, writer and performer, PEGGY SEEGER is the very epitome of American Folk Music aristocracy.
Her father was Charles Louis Seeger Jr., the respected musicologist, composer, teacher and folklorist; her mother was Ruth Porter Crawford, a modernist composer and folklorist, the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship; her older half-brother was Pete Seeger, the celebrated singer, songwriter and social activist.
This 2-CD set, which includes Peggy's original version of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', written for and about her by Ewan McColl, is drawn from fourteen LPs and two EPs, recorded between 1954-62.
Her collaborators include Isla Cameron, Guy Carawan, Alan Lomax, John Cole, Sammy Stokes, her brother Mike and sisters Barbara & Penny Seeger, and of course her husband, Ewan MacColl.
This is the first time that this body of work has been thus compiled, and around a third of these sides are unavailable elsewhere on CD.
Tracklist
DISC ONE
1. WHISTLE DAUGHTER, WHISTLE
2. THE WAGONER'S LAD
3. THE OLD MAID
4. RACCOON AND POSSUM
5. THE DEER SONG
6. AND WE HUNTED AND WE HUNTED
7. CUMBERLAND GAP
8. THE FAIR MAID BY THE SHORE
9. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL
10. FREIGHT TRAIN
11. BRING A LITTLE WATER SYLVIE
12. LORD LOVEL
13. SKIP TO MY LOU
14. TRAIN ON THE ISLAND
15. FOD
16. COME ALONG JOHN
17. ALL AROUND THE KITCHEN
18. BILLY BARLOW
19. THE CRUEL WAR IS RAGING
20. THE MERMAID
21. A RICH OLD MISER
22. EQUINOXIAL AND PHOEBE
23. MARY ANNE
24. HATTIE BELLE
25. RIDIN' IN A BUGGY
26. IN THE WILDERNESS
27. JOHNSON BOYS
28. THE TWO SISTERS
29. FALSE LOVER WON BACK
30. ELFIN KING
DISC TWO
1. JIMMY WILSON
2. LIFEBOAT MONA
3. THE FIREMAN'S NOT FOR ME
4. THERE'S BETTER THINGS TO DO
5. THE SPACE GIRL'S SONG
6. COME ME LITTLE SON
7. PRETTY LITTLE BABY
8. I'LL NOT MARRY AT ALL
9. YOUNG COLLINS
10. BRAVE WOLFE
11. THE CRUEL MOTHER
12. OLD LADY ALL SKIN AND BONES
13. JUST AS THE TIDE WAS FLOWING
14. JACKARO
15. MARCH WITH US TODAY
16. LULLABYE FOR THE TIMES
17. THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE
18. WHEN I WAS YOUNG
19. LITTLE BLACK TRAIN
20. HENRY LEE
21. PEOPLE GO MIND YOUR BUSINESS
22. THE OLD WOMAN AND HER LITTLE PIG
23. GREEN VALLEY
24. ROCK AN' BY THE BABY
25. THE DEATH OF QUEEN JANE
26. GIRL OF CONSTANT SORROW
27. THE DEWY DENS OF YARROW