Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger (1998)

About this title: After listening to this multi-artist two-CD celebration of Pete Seeger's songs, you'll be delighted to read in the liner notes that it's "just the beginning of at least four volumes." Producer Jim Musselman calls the package a "labor of love," and that's clearly what it was. Musselman did a terrific job of choosing the songs from Seeger's vast repertoire, and of matching each tune with an artist "based on either the philosophical fit between the artist and the message of the song and/or their unique musical style." Even the extensive liner notes -- which include info on each performer, plus ... read more

Tracks:

1. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? [Seeger]
2. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine [Gilbert/Hays/Heller]
3. The Water Is Wide [Urban/Seeger]
4. Of Time and Rivers Flowing [Seeger]
5. My Name Is Liza Kalvelage [Seeger]
6. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) [Seeger/Traditional]
7. Festival of Flowers [Seeger/Mungo]
8. Step by Step
9. Blessed Be the Nation [Seeger/Musselman]
10. My Father's Mansion [Seeger]
11. Sailing Down My Golden River [Seeger]
12. Goofing off Suite [Seeger]
13. Those Three Are on My Mind [Talor/Seeger]
14. How Can I Keep from Singing? [Urban/Plenn]
15. All Mixed Up [Seeger]
16. Empty Pocket Blues [Seeger/Hays]
17. Get Up and Go [Seeger]
18. Old Riley [Urban]
19. If I Had a Hammer [Seeger/Hays]
20. Wimoweh [Gilbert/Hays/Heller]
21. We Shall Overcome [Horton/Hamilton/Car]
22. The Bells of Rhymney [Davies/Seeger]
23. Oh, Had I a Golden Thread [Seeger]
24. False from True [Seeger]
25. Letter to Eve [Seeger]
26. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy [Seeger]
27. All My Children of the Sun [Seeger]
28. Living in the Country [Seeger]
29. One Grain of Sand [Seeger]
30. Old Father Hudson-Sailing Down Dirty Stream [Seeger]
31. The Torn Flag [Seeger/Shark/Trudel]
32. Doublin' [Urban/Seeger]
33. To Everyone in the World [Seeger]
34. Over the Hills [Urban/Seeger]
35. I Come and Stand at Every Door [Hikmet/Turner/Walte]
36. My Rainbow Race [Seeger]
37. Quiet Early Morning [Seeger]
38. Oh, Sacred World [Seeger]
39. And Still I Am Searching [Seeger]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.