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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
probably one of his best live recordings,
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This review is from: Live at Newport 63-65 (Audio CD)
"Live at Newport" is probably one of the best recordings I have gotten hold of. Pete Seeger puts on a very positive image with his audience by including them in several of the songs. I liked the protest songs like "Where have all the Flowers gone" and "Down by the Riverside." "Never Wed an Old Man" and "The Foolish Frog" are both really humorous. I would recommend this recording to anyone who enjoys his music.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great recording quality, giving a true sense of Pete live back then...,
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This review is from: Live at Newport 63-65 (Audio CD)
Although this 63-minute CD featuring songs by Seeger done at three consecutive Newport festivals could have turned out oddly disjointed and with varying recording quality, it actually plays as if this was a seamless straight hour with Pete on stage. I saw three of his concerts back in the days, in '64 and '65 at The Music Circus in Lambertville, NJ and in '66 at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. While listening to this CD, a recent gift from a friend who really does not like Pete much, I was transported back to those events. The first two concerts were summer Sunday afternoon affairs. Pete always brought a musical guest along. The first time it was Bernice Johnson Reagon, an original "Freedom Singer" from the civil rights battles in Georgia, who later went on to found a group called "Honey in the Rock." The next year, the guest was a Scotsman named Hamish something or other, who did some comic stuff with traditional Celtic instruments. In Philly, he brought the Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, who had a booming voice albeit a minor-league folk career. He did a guest turn or two on "Sesame Street" however! For this effort, it is mostly solo Pete, except for a rousing "Down by the Riverside" with a chorus made up of fellow festival performers.
However, if your purpose in looking here is to get a CD that reflects what attending a Seeger show in the 60's was really like, this will do. A possibly better choice is to find the two-CD release of his 1963 "We Shall Overcome" concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Back in my times, that was released as a very condensed single LP by Columbia, but it was a good one. Be warned: During this hour at Newport, Pete talks a lot, and picks a lot, and talks a lot. Those moments were fine in person, but have less interest "on record." I can't really pick a highlight on here, because everything is part of Pete and had been for a long time. The overall effect is to demonstrate what was loveable about him in the concert setting. He'd been folk-singing since 1940, and was still at it part-time just a few years ago, although he's over 90 as I write this. A lot of people can't forgive his support of Russia, Communism and socialism, and can't divorce that flaw from his non-political performances and recordings. Paul Robeson, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston and many others active in the '40's through the '60's have the same tainted image. To me, they were wrong about international politics and systems, and history has proven it. However, they were largely right about unions and civil rights and needed domestic changes. And to my mind, there is nothing on this CD to offend anyone, even "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" which is as mild a protest ditty as was ever penned. Enjoy Pete for his role in preserving American and world "folk" music. Let the outdated political idealism go, as we will soon have to let Pete himself go. As for me, I loved him for a few years, and learned to find a lot of great music and great performers through his work. I've outgrown his style, but hearing these tracks still made me smile.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fine live experience,
This review is from: Live at Newport 63-65 (Audio CD)
I bought this Cd because I've heard the magnificent record "Hootennany with Pete Seeger", a brilliant live performance with some illustrious guests (mostly blues artists) and lively audience participation.
It's a pleasure to hear Seegers jubilant voice and sprightly banjo, with songs such as "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" or the brilliant finale song, but this particular live album has a tad tooo much talking to merit 5 stars, although the best moments are really worth Seegers weight in gold (actually, Seeeger seems a bit skinny on the photos, so you may double that)... The rambling talk on "The Foolish Frog", for instance, must have been fun on the concert (and it might be fun on a DVD), but like this it's a waste of time.
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