
The Roots Of Peggy Seeger - The First Time Ever (CD)
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This 2-CD set, which includes Peggy's original version of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, written for and about her by Ewan McColl, is drawn from fourteen LPs and two EPs, recorded between 1954-62.
Her collaborators include Isla Cameron, Guy Carawan, Alan Lomax, John Cole, Sammy Stokes, her brother Mike and sisters Barbara & Penny Seeger, and of course her husband, Ewan MacColl.
Peggy Seeger is the very epitome of American Folk Music aristocracy. Her father was Charles Louis Seeger Jr., the respected musicologist, composer, teacher and folklorist; her mother was Ruth Porter Crawford, a modernist composer and folklorist, the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship; her older half-brother was Pete Seeger, the celebrated singer, songwriter and social activist.
Tracklist:
Tracks
- Whistle Daughter, Whistle
- The Wagoner's Lad
- The Old Maid
- Raccoon And Possum
- The Deer Song
- And We Hunted And We Hunted
- Cumberland Gap
- The Fair Maid By The Shore
- The Wife Of Usher's Well
- Freight Train
- Bring A Little Water Sylvie
- Lord Lovel
- Skip To My Lou
- Train On The Island
- Fod
- Come Along John
- All Around The Kitchen
- Billy Barlow
- The Cruel War Is Raging
- The Mermaid
- A Rich Old Miser
- Equinoxial And Phoebe
- Mary Anne
- Hattie Belle
- Ridin' In A Buggy
- In The Wilderness
- Johnson Boys
- The Two Sisters
- False Lover Won Back
- Elfin King
- Jimmy Wilson
- Lifeboat Mona
- The Fireman's Not For Me
- There's Better Things To Do
- The Space Girl's Song
- Come Me Little Son
- Pretty Little Baby
- I'll Not Marry At All
- Young Collins
- Brave Wolfe
- The Cruel Mother
- Old Lady All Skin And Bones
- Just As The Tide Was Flowing
- Jackaro
- March With Us Today
- Lullabye For The Times
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- When I Was Young
- Little Black Train
- Henry Lee
- People Go Mind Your Business
- The Old Woman And Her Little Pig
- Green Valley
- Rock An' By The Baby
- The Death Of Queen Jane
- Girl Of Constant Sorrow
- The Dewy Dens Of Yarrow