Essential

Pete Seeger | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000ECD
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,178 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Coal Creek March

2. Oh, What a Beautiful City!

3. Clean-Oh/Ladies Auxiliary

4. The Bells of Rhymney

5. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh)

6. Viva la Quince Brigada

7. Suliram

8. Wimoweh (Mbube)

9. Bring Me Little Water, Silvy

10. The Bourgeois Blues

11. Roll on, Columbia

12. East Virginia

13. St. James Hospital

14. The Death of Harry Simms

15. We Shall Not Be Moved

16. Medley: Cripple Creek/Old Joe Clark/Ida Red

17. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies

18. John Hardy

19. My Father's Mansions

20. God Bless the Grass

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Evening with Pete Seeger, October 24, 2006

By 

Ben Parker "Cheshire" (Church Point, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential (Audio CD)

This item has a really fun cover so that you can't miss it if you run across it somewhere.

Not to be confused with the recent company doing retrospectives of many artists, including Pete Seeger, under the same title "Essential Pete Seeger."

This volume seems to be the complete concert that some tracks for the recent "Essential" were selected from, including Wimoweh. While this concert does feature some hits that Seeger himself had with the Weavers like Wimoweh aka Mbube aka The Lion Sleeps Tonight, its not intended as a hits collection but is true to Seeger's preference for showcasing other people's songs: songs by his friend and old band mate Woody Guthrie, African American folk songs, mountain songs, world songs.

It is Essential Seeger in that it gives a faithful idea of what Seeger's like in concert: its just him and his banjo, which he plays beautifully; and the folk tradition of getting the audience to laugh and sing along. Sounds like an entertaining night was had by all.

Should you get it? Depends on what you're after. Don't expect Weavers studio recordings.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pump Up the Volume, July 12, 2008

By 

T. Hammon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential (Audio CD)

The Essential Pete SeegerThe music here presents Pete in his early years. Most of the songs are recorded live & unlike his later concerts he does not prompt the audience to sing along.

The BIG problem that I had with this recording was that it was NOT REMASTERED WELL, the volume is up to 12db low. I needed to re-record the entire CD, pumping up the volume individually on each track (excluding the clapping...) so that the songs played at a reasonable volume.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fine introduction to an important artist., February 20, 2000

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"oldtimerocker" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential (Audio CD)

This is a fine introduction to the work of Pete Seeger. In order to understand the Folk Movement, you need to own this one and "We Shall Overcome."