The Complete Bowdoin College Concert, 1960

Artista: Seeger, Pete

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: SFW

Catalogo: 740184

Faixas: 1.1 Goofing Off Suite-Opening Theme
1.2 Penny’s Farm
1.3 He Lies in the American Land
1.4 Deep Blue Sea
1.5 Hieland Laddie
1.6 Oh, Riley
1.7 Banjo Medley: Cripple Creek/Old Joe Clark/Old Dan Tucker
1.8 Summertime
1.9 D-Day Dodgers
1.10 Quiz Show
1.11 Al Smith Holds the Bottle
1.12 What a Friend We Have in Congress
1.13 Living in the Country
1.14 Water Is Wide
1.15 Bells of Rhymney
1.16 Goodnight Irene
1.17 Intermission
2.1 Big Rock Candy Mountain
2.2 I Had a Dream
2.3 Oh, What a Beautiful City
2.4 In the Sweet Bye and Bye/Preacher and the Slave
2.5 Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
2.6 Medley: Colorado Trail/Spanish Is the Loving Tongue/From Here on Up/Tex
2.7 Open the Door Softly/Road to Athay/Why Do Scotsmen?
2.8 Hold Up Your Petticoat/Where Have All the Flowers Gone?/Step By Step/Jo
2.9 Vive la Quince Brigada
2.10 Suliram
2.11 Wimoweh
2.12 Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
2.13 Commentary
2.14 Bourgeois Blues
2.15 Black Girl/Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
2.16 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
2.17 Worried Man Blues
2.18 Conclusion

Two CD set. Bowdoin, a small liberal arts college in Maine was the setting for this previously unreleased 1960 live performance. It was before the political upheavals and social revolutions that would rock college campuses only a few years later when much more of society synched with Seeger’s ideals. A mixed crowd of young folkies, jazz fans, democrats and republicans, heard an exemplary mix of traditional, current topical songs, sea chanteys and world music tunes. Seeger also used this concert as the perfect opportunity to expose students to Lead Belly’s music and even managed to get a couple of good digs at Congress. In today’s terms, think the former lead singer of a top rock group playing your college.