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Free Music Review: This is the best sounding Weavers CD period ! Full Stop!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is best sounding Weavers CD.Trust me! The "Sax" treatment mentioned by another reviewer here is spot on.I used this disc to demonstrate High End Audio Gear.(People gathered around just hearing it)
This disc is worth having just for Guantanamera track alone, you can hear Pete's foot tapping on the stage! When you consider that this was recorded decades ago , you wonder what microphones people use these days! How can this be so good? This CD is one of my favs, i even got another copy just in case the "unthinkable" happens.
Get now ! What's stopping you?
Free Music Review: good cd
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this cd for my aunts birthday, so it's actually her review.
In her words: it's great to have both parts now of this great concert, I already had part II (via my nice I now have part I as well). I absolutely love this music. You can describe at a mix between folk, classical music and country. It's an older band with reunited for this gig, so it's quite special.
Free Music Review: Surprised that it has been reviewed only twice.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a true gem. Recorded live by Doug Sax. I have not listened to anything mediocre engineered by Doug Sax. The ambiance and performance is timeless. Even if you don't like folk music, you will enjoy this one. Highly Recommended!!!!!!!Free Music Review: TO GET YOU IN BETTER MOOD
Hit: 5 Stars
I was truly surprised when I first listened to this album, since I didn't hear for weavers till then. I enjoyed it greately, and every time I listen it get's me into better mood.Free Music Review: Making More Joyful Music
Hit: 4 Stars
This review has been used for other work by The Weavers, including review of the PBS production, The 25th Anniversary Reunion of the group. That documentary gives greater detail to the points that I have made below and includes more on the genesis, early successes and the ultimate fates and health of the various members of the group.
Okay, let's have a show of hands. Who first heard learned the classic Lead Belly song "Goodnight, Irene" from his rendition of the song? Who from the group under review, The Weavers? Another try. How about "If I Had A Hammer"? Or the old Underground Railroad song "Follow The Drinking Gourd"? I suspect that I would get the same answer. And that is to the good. Sure, we have heard all the songs in this collection before by various artist like Pete Seeger as an individual on "Gunatanamera", Bob Dylan on "House Of The Rising Sun" , Tennessee Ernie Ford On "Sixteen Tons" or Woody Guthrie on "This Land Is Your Land" but we HEAR this music through the four distinctive voices of The Weavers. Thus the title of this entry- Making Joyful Music.
That said, this group morphed in the 1940's from a grouping, The Almanac Singers, led by Pete Seeger, with occasional assistance from Woody Guthrie that performed in New York City and other locales for the labor movement and other left-wing causes. The rise to eminence I believe, however, came with the addition of the lovely strong voice of Ronnie Gilbert that gives a very different feel to the music in contrast to the Almanac Singers. As a group The Weavers made their mark with a stirring, very popular rendition of the Lead Belly classic mentioned above, "Goodnight, Irene". Then the roof fell in. Between personal differences within the group and the pressure, extreme pressure, of the 1950's anti-communist witch hunt in America that looked for "reds under every bed" and that dragged Pete Seeger in its wake the group fell off the radar for a while (in Seeger's case a long while). Nevertheless this basic American folk music lives on in their voices and in this recording that sounds pretty good even today.
A few other songs from this collection also deserve note. The beautifully harmonic (and wild) "Wimoweh"; a nice version of "On Top Of Old Smokey"; a well done version of the currently very apt and appropriate Yip Harburg song "Brother Can You Spare A Dime"; and, as a finale "So Long It's Been Good To Know You". In the folk pantheon this group has a place of honor. Listen to this CD to find out why.
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