Pete Seeger - If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle
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Artist: Pete SeegerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-05-19
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
- I'd Hammer In The Morning (Intro): If I Had A Hammer
- Banks Of Marble
- Solidarity Forever (Unions And Labor): Which Side Are You On?
- Solidarity Forever (Unions And Labor): Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
- Solidarity Forever (Unions And Labor): Talking Union
- Solidarity Forever (Unions And Labor): Joe Hill
- Solidarity Forever (Unions And Labor): Union Maid
- Solidarity Forever (Unions And Labor): Step By Step
- Solidarity Forever (Unions And Labor): Solidarity Forever
- Study War No More (Peace): Where Have All The Flowers Gone
- Study War No More (Peace): Talking Atom
- Study War No More (Peace): Crow On The Cradle
- Study War No More (Peace): Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
- Study War No More (Peace): Study War No More
- We Shall Overcome (Civil Rights): Bourgeois Blues
- We Shall Overcome (Civil Rights): River Of My People
- We Shall Overcome (Civil Rights): Hold On (Hand On The Plow)
- We Shall Overcome (Civil Rights): We Shall Overcome
- I'd Hammer in The Evening (Hope): He Lies In The American Land
- I'd Hammer in The Evening (Hope): Well May The World Go
- I'd Hammer in The Evening (Hope): Turn, Turn, Turn
- I'd Hammer in The Evening (Hope): Tomorrow Is A Highway
- I'd Hammer in The Evening (Hope): Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
- I'd Hammer in The Evening (Hope): We'll All Be A-Doubling
- I'd Hammer in The Evening (Hope): Arrange And Rearrange
- I'd Hammer in The Evening (Hope): If I Had A Hammer
Free Music Notes for If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle
Free Music Review: While Have All the FLowers Gone, Indeed
Hit: 5 Stars
This review is being used to describe several of Pete Seeger's recordings. Although I have listened to most of his songs and recordings these represent those that best represent his life's work.
My musical tastes were formed, as were many of those of the generation of 1968, by `Rock and Roll' music exemplified by the Rolling Stones and Beatles and by the blues revival, both Delta and Chicago style. However, those forms as much as they gave pleasure were only marginally political at best. In short, these were entertainers performing material that spoke to us. In the most general sense that is all one should expect of a performer. Thus, for the most part that music need not be reviewed here. Those who thought that a new musical sensibility laid the foundations for a cultural or political revolution have long ago been proven wrong.
That said, in the early 1960's there nevertheless was another form of musical sensibility that was directly tied to radical political expression- the folk revival. This entailed a search for roots and relevancy in musical expression. While not all forms of folk music lent themselves to radical politics it is hard to see the 1960's cultural rebellion without giving a nod to such figures as Dave Van Ronk, the early Bob Dylan, Utah Phillips, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and others. Whatever entertainment value these performers provided they also spoke to and prodded our political development. They did have a message and an agenda and we responded as such. That these musicians' respective agendas proved inadequate and/or short-lived does not negate their affect on the times.
As I have noted in my review of Dave Van Ronk's work when I first heard folk music in my youth I felt unsure about whether I liked it or not. As least against my strong feelings about the Rolling Stones and my favorite blues artist such as Howling Wolf and Elmore James. Then on some late night radio folk show here in Boston I heard Dave Van Ronk singing `Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies' and that was it. From that time to the present folk music has been a staple of my musical tastes. From there I expanded my play list of folk artists with a political message, including obviously Pete Seeger.
Although I had probably heard Seeger's `Had I a Golden Thread' at some earlier point I actually learned about his music secondhand from a recording of Songs of the Spanish Civil War which included `Viva la Quince Brigada' a tribute to the American Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades. Since I was intensely interested in that fight in Spain and in that "premature anti-fascist" organization I was hooked. While like Woody Guthrie Seeger's influence has had its ebbs and flows since that time each succeeding generation of folk singers still seems to be drawn to his simple, honest tunes about the previous political struggles and the ordinary people who made this country, for good or evil what it is today.
Pete's relationship with the American Communist Party while no secret is not widely known. As with Woody what is interesting is that the subjects of his songs fairly closely reflect the party line as it changed to reflect the winds blowing from Moscow. Pete's best work, like Woody's is reflected in the People's Front style of ` Where Have All The Flowers Gone' and the above-mentioned "Golden Thread" reflecting that party's further development of its class collaborationist policy with the Democratic Party. Thus, they gave up on the fight for an indpendent working party based on its own program. Political differnces between us aside, listen to his recordings and learn about hard times and struggle of an earlier period.
If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle Poster
Pete Seeger is a national treasure, a living American institution. Unfortunately in our fast-paced world we often forget about our treasures, our institutions, and our heritage. This wonderful collection, culled from his massive library of work with Folkways Records, is, if nothing else, a reminder of how much Pete Seeger means to America. Seeger sang for the people and their rights at a time when that could get rabble-rousers blacklisted and worse. What's more, he got the people singing for themselves. You'll know many of these songs--the title track, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "Turn, Turn, Turn"--you just might not know them in their original voice. If I Had a Hammer will set that straight. --Michael RubyFor over 50 years Pete Seeger's music has included songs on labor, civil rights, peace, and the hope for a better world. This CD contains 24 tracks selected from hundreds released on Folkways Records in the late 1950s and 1960s and 2 new songs recorded especially for this collection. Pete plays the 5-string banjo and the 12-string guitar, and appears on some tracks with Almanac Singers and his grandson Tao Rodriguez. Booklet contains detailed notes by Mark Greenberg and a complete discography of Pete Seeger on Folkways. 71 minutes.
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