Headlines & Footnotes: Collection of Topical Songs

Pete Seeger - Headlines & Footnotes: Collection of Topical Songs

Headlines & Footnotes: Collection of Topical Songs
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Artist: Pete Seeger
Brand: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Model: SFW40111
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
  1. Peg and Awl
  2. The Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)
  3. Sinking of the Reuben James
  4. Listen Mr. Bilbo
  5. Hold the Line
  6. Passing Through
  7. Coal Creek March/Payday at Coal Creek/Roll Down the Line
  8. I Come and Stand at Every Door
  9. Time's A-Getting Hard
  10. Little Boxes
  11. From Way Up Here
  12. The Battle of Maxton Field
  13. Get Up and Go
  14. The Bells of Rhymney
  15. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
  16. Guantanamera
  17. There Once Was a Woman Who Swallwed a Lie
  18. Wasn't That a Time
  19. Viva la Quince Brigada
  20. Wimoweh
  21. English Is Cuh-Ray-Zee
  22. Odds on Favorite (A Long Story Terse)
  23. A Little of This and That

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Free Music Review: The "Keeper Of The Flame" Struts His Stuff
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That Old Devil Time

The name Pete Seeger has come up repeatedly in this space over the past few years as the transmission belt from the old 1930's and 1940's Depression and World War II era folk revival to the that of the one in the early 1960's. In other places in this space (check archives) I have mentioned my political differences, great and small, with Brother Seeger so there is no need to go into that here. I would note, however, that despite his folksy style he has always been driven by a political conception to his work. That is, that music, and in his case, folk music can be used to bring political "glad tidings" to the masses. One cannot fault that principle, although what effect music has in driving people to higher political consciousness is a very, very open question in my mind. Nevertheless putting topical subjects to music by the folk balladeer and troubadour alike has a long pedigree and needs no defense here. Moreover, in the capable hands of Pete Seeger, the compilation under review represents a very nice cross-section of that way of driving the political message home.

Everyone in the modern folk milieu owes a debt to Pete Seeger for playing "keeper of the flame" for the old time `talking blues' format of spreading political and social messages (and Woody Guthrie as well, who perfected the art form). This volume is ample proof of that. Good examples here that provide such messages without the drumbeat of heavy political analysis are the pro-women's liberation "There Once Was A Woman Who Swallowed A Lie" and, most dramatically (and relevantly, as President Obama right now works his way through the "Big Poppy Field" of Afghanistan) "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy" (ostensibly a tale about World War II but really about Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam War policy). For social commentary one cannot beat Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes" (almost self-explanatory about the deadening nature of upscale American suburban life) and The Claiborne's "Listen Mr. Bilbo" (about the simple truths of immigration in America, virtually an immigrant-created country).

Of course, no collection of Seeger efforts is complete without the Spanish Civil War song, "Viva La Quince Brigada", about the heroic Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the 15th International Brigade that fought valiantly there or to do a cover to commemorate an early heroic Cuban patriot, Jose Marti's "Guantanamera". For topical songs, a staple of the folk tradition since about the Middle Ages, try "The Titanic" (yes, that one that went down in 1912-and wasn't suppose to) and "The Sinking Of The Reuben James" ( an ode to the merchant marines in the early days of World War II). For left wing political struggles under adverse conditions, "Hold The Line", about a famous Paul Robeson concert at Peekskill, New York that was busted up by fascistic local red necks in the build-up to the `red scare of the 1940's and 1950's is a good exemplar. And so on. In short, for those who want to hear folk music with a historical sense as it was meant to be presented then here is your primer by one of your master singers of such works. Get to it.



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Headlines & Footnotes: Collection of Topical Songs Poster

For nearly 60 years Pete Seeger, with his banjo and 12-string guitar, has made music which inspires people to improve their lives and world. Selections on this anthology, culled from the hundreds Seeger recorded for Folkways Records between 1955 and 1999, include concert and studio recordings about prominent events and themes of the twentieth century: the Spanish Civil War, union organizing, and the civil rights and antiwar movements. Eleven previously unreleased tracks (one recorded in 1999). 74 minutes.

AWARDS
2000 Crossroads Music Awards Silver Star for Folk: Traditional

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