Peggy Seeger - The Roots Of Peggy Seeger - The First Time Ever

Cat. no: JASCD886
Format: CD2
Barcode: 604988088625
Release Date: 03 Dec 2021
Genre: Folk

Now well into her eighties, yet still active as a singer, writer and performer, 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.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.

This is the first time that this body of work has been thus compiled, and around a third of these sides are unavailable elsewhere on CD.

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