Pete Seeger - Live in 65

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Free Music Review: a show, much more than a concert
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Live in '65 documents a "typical" Seeger show at the midpoint of a tumultuous decade in which civil rights, the Cold War, and generational conflicts were aflame. Seeger uses his inclusive repertoire to unify his audience with the perspective of songs of older but similar conflicts ("Peat Bog Soldiers," "Los Cuatro Generales," "The Freedom Come-All Ye"; this is Pete's only recording of the latter song, which he regards as highly important); folk classics ("Oh Susanna," "Old Joe Clark," "Greensleeves"), modestly racy tales of bawdy houses ("Queen Anne's Front"), conjugal relations ("Never Wed an Old Man," "Uh, Uh, Uh"), and the socioeconomic value of horse turds ("Manyura Manya"); inspired versions of fellow ex-Weaver Fred Hellerman's soothing "Healing River," Bob Dylan's apocalyptic warning, "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," and Woody Guthrie's anthemic "This Land is Your Land"; and Seeger's own portfolio of unforgettable original or adapted songs ("Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "Guantanamera," If I Had a Hammer," "The Bells of Rhymney," "Turn! Turn! Turn!").

Performing solo - just vocals and banjo or 12-string guitar - Seeger provides his audience with historical contexts for the songs he sings, teaches lyrics and leads singalongs, and otherwise involves yesteryear's and today's listeners in this spellbinding concert, almost two full hours.

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