Seeger,Peggy Roots Of Peggy Seeger: The First Time Ever CD

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.

1. Disc One 2. Whistle Daughter, Whistle 3. The Wagoner's Lad 4. The Old Maid 5. Raccoon and Possum 6. The Deer Song 7. And We Hunted and We Hunted 8. Cumberland Gap 9. The Fair Maid By the Shore 10. The Wife of Usher's Well 11. Freight Train 12. Bring a Little Water Sylvie 13. Lord Lovel 14. Skip to My Lou 15. Train on the Island 16. Fod 17. Come Along John 18. All Around the Kitchen 19. Billy Barlow 20. The Cruel War Is Raging 21. The Mermaid 22. A Rich Old Miser 23. Equinoxial and Phoebe 24. Mary Anne 25. Hattie Belle 26. Ridin' in a Buggy 27. In the Wilderness 28. Johnson Boys 29. The Two Sisters 30. False Lover Won Back 31. Elfin King 32. Jimmy Wilson 33. Lifeboat Mona 34. The Fireman's Not for Me 35. There's Better Things to Do 36. The Space Girl's Song 37. Come Me Little Son 38. Pretty Little Baby 39. I'll Not Marry at All 40. Young Collins 41. Brave Wolfe 42. The Cruel Mother 43. Old Lady All Skin and Bones 44. Just As the Tide Was Flowing 45. Jackaro 46. March with Us Today 47. Lullabye for the Times 48. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 49. When I Was Young 50. Little Black Train 51. Henry Lee 52. People Go Mind Your Business 53. The Old Woman and Her Little Pig 54. Green Valley 55. Rock An' By the Baby 56. The Death of Queen Jane 57. Girl of Constant Sorrow 58. The Dewy Dens of Yarrow