Pete Seeger - Pioneer of Folk

There are only sparse annotations to identify the songs on this 20-track British budget compilation, but this is an album containing some of Pete Seeger's earliest recordings. Nine tracks are credited as being performed with The Almanac Singers, the politically oriented group of which Seeger was a member in 1941-1942; in fact, thirteen of the recordings are drawn from The Almanacs' rare 78 rpm albums, among them such standards of topical folk as "Talking Union," "The Union Maid," and "Which Side Are You OnNULL." The Almanacs had to make a quick about-face from the anti-war sentiments of "Washington Breakdown," recorded during the isolationist days before Pearl Harbor, to pro-war songs like "Round and Round Hitler's Grave" and "Reuben James," but they also found time for more traditional folk fare (also included here). Read More