The Weavers - The Weavers - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Notes for The Weavers - Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: a trip back in time
Hit: 5 Stars
I had never heard of the Weavers until I watched a recent PBS documentary. I immediately got online and bought this one. This is a great CD and makes me think how great it must have been "back in the day" to be happy with simpler things (great music) instead of so caught up in all the craziness that is our world today. There are a few songs (Rock Island Line, for example) that make me turn the volume way up and sing along. Free Music Review: Mark Torres Travel Tips For Aztlan KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles
Hit: 5 Stars
This release is an essential purchase for those who enjoy folk music or are excavating the folk music tradition. The Weavers were one of the first groups to attain commercial success when their version of Leadbelly's Goodnight Irene was a number 1 single in America for 7 weeks in 1950...!!!
Their success began a folk music resurgence that would eventually bring us the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, Judy Collins, Buffie St. Marie, Phil Ochs, The Kingston Trio and countless others
All this from a group that was hounded by HUAC, blacklisters and boycotters and was eventually forced to concede any dream they might have had to make a living from their music. They didn't even release or perform their beautifully happy and hopeful song If I Had A Hammer because of the relentless pressure on them. Of course all was forgotten when Pete Paul and Mary made a hit of If I had a Hammer a decade later.
The weakest part of this release is the lack of liner notes to tell their story and put their accomplishments in perspective... The music is wonderful.
Free Music Review: Still the old magic
Hit: 3 Stars
I would have given this review 5 stars because the Weavers are the Weavers and these are such wonderful songs. My only disappointment is that I'm afraid I've grown accustomed to the big sound of modern recordings and I wish there were some way they could boost the sound of this one. I suppose several tracks is too much to ask for, but it sounds a bit two-dimensional. Free Music Review: not good folk
Hit: 1 Stars
maybe good for weaver fans, but frankly i think of the weavers as sellouts to pop music. if you want good lee hays or pete seeger, listen to the almanac singers, where they at least have woody guthrie.Free Music Review: very enjoyable
Hit: 4 Stars
If you don't mind that most of the recordings are live, this is as good a collection of Weavers' tunes as you can find. The sound quality and volume are a bit uneven, but the playing and singing are uniformly excellent and the song selection is like the greatest hits of a generation. The Weavers' harmonizing obviously heavily influenced Peter Paul and Mary, and is endlessly entertaining. Unlike some of the other reviewers, I thought the version of Goodnight Irene was quite good, even if the sound quality isn't perfect.