Pete Seeger: Gazette, Vol. 2 - COMPACT DISCS

Description

Title: Gazette, Vol. 2

Artist: Pete Seeger

Label: Folkways Records

Product Type: COMPACT DISCS

UPC: 093070250222

Genre: Country, Folk

Release Date: 2012-05-30

Number of Discs: 1

In the liner notes to this second volume of topical songs, Irwin Silber writes, “”Traditional folk song, in addition to it”s inherent artistic worth and emotion-fulfilling qualities, has always served as the ”living newspaper” of history.”” This “”living newspaper”” includes songs about the Centralia, Illinois mine disaster and the destruction of Hiroshima.

Tracks:
1.1 Tomorrow Is a Highway
1.2 The Dying Miner
1.3 Bourgeois Blues
1.4 The Literacy Test Song
1.5 Fayette County
1.6 Moorsoldaten (Peat Bog Soldiers)
1.7 Hold the Line
1.8 When a Fellow Is Out of a Job
1.9 The Rand Hymn
1.10 The Crow on the Cradle
1.11 I Come and Stand at Every Door
1.12 The Easter Marchers
1.13 The Jack Ash Society