Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
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Artist: Bruce SpringsteenEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Import
CD Release Date: 2006-04-24
Music Label: Columbia Europe
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Old Dan Tucker
- Jesse James
- Mrs. McGrath
- O Mary Don't You Weep
- John Henry
- Erie Canal
- Jacob's Ladder
- My Oklahoma Home
- Eyes on the Prize
- Shenandoah
- Pay Me My Money Down
- We Shall Overcome
- Froggie Went a Courtin'
- Old Dan Tucker [DVD]
- Jesse James [DVD]
- Mrs. McGrath [DVD]
- O Mary Don't You Weep [DVD]
- John Henry [DVD]
- Erie Canal [DVD]
- Jacob's Ladder [DVD]
- My Oklahoma Home [DVD]
- Eyes on the Prize [DVD]
- Shenandoah [DVD]
- Pay Me My Money Down [DVD]
- We Shall Overcome [DVD]
- Froggie Went a Courtin' [DVD]
- John Henry [DVD]
- Pay Me My Money Down [DVD]
- Buffalo Gals [DVD]
- Erie Canal [DVD]
- O Mary Don't You Weep [DVD]
- Shenandoah [DVD]
- [DVD] [Bonus Material]
Free Music Notes for We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Free Music Review: Great Fun!!
Hit: 4 Stars
Bruce and the gang sound like they had a whale of a time making this album. It's great fun to listen to in the car.
My one criticism would be that Bruce tends to use a phony southern accent when he sings. Oh, and "Shenendoah," as others have pointed out, is the low point.
Otherwise--kick up your heels!
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions Poster
VIDEOA 40-minute film about the recording of the album with artist commentary. Includes filmed performances of:
John Henry Pay Me My Money Down Buffalo Gals Erie Canal O Mary Don?'t You Weep Jacob?'s Ladder Froggie Went A Courtin?' Shenandoah
Plus four bonus live tour videos:
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (Bruce Springsteen Version) Bring ?'Em Home American Land Pay Me My Money Down
The premise was simple. Bruce Springsteen invites a dozen or so New York City musicians--packing banjos, fiddles, accordions and the like--to his New Jersey farmhouse for a three-day hootenanny, and tape is rolling. The results are sublime, his 21st album featuring their versions of songs harvested from Springsteen's dog-eared LPs by Pete Seeger. Not all written by Seeger, the songs are how the American folk icon interpreted them, and these organic recordings, with no rehearsals or overdubs, pay tribute with the simplicity and spontaneity he intended. It's not hard to link Springsteen's dissatisfaction with American politics to the protest song "We Shall Overcome" or even the Irish ballad "Mrs. McGrath," where he alters the lyrics to read, "I'd rather have my son as he used to be/Than the King of America and his whole navy." But the beauty of these Seeger Sessions are pieces that underscore the mood of the bandleader, which borders on down-home amusement: the bluegrass outlaw ballad "Jesse James," the Dylanesque "Pay Me My Money Down" and the euphoric "Jacob's Ladder," a gumbo-and-whiskey-fueled romp that could pass for the closing hymn at the Church of Asbury Park. --Scott Holter
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