Songs of Conscience & Concern (1999)

About this title: Amazingly, this is only the second compilation (discounting the mail-order only Readers Digest set) in the history of Peter, Paul & Mary, and it is the perfect compliment to Ten Years Together: The Best of Peter, Paul & Mary. Drawn primarily from the trio's 1980s and 1990s material, it's a profile of the group's most serious songs from their second phase -- what most casual fans will find most startling, apart from how good the group sounds, is how unflinching they are in their seriousness, at a point when most people had stopped listening, or even wanting to listen to what they had to say. ... read more

Tracks:

1. Wasn't That a Time [Hays/Seeger/Gilbert]
2. Pastures of Plenty [Guthrie]
3. Power [Hall/Hall]
4. If I Were Free [Edmonson]
5. Coming of the Roads [Wheeler]
6. El Salvador [Stookey/Wallis]
7. The Great Mandala [Yarrow]
8. All My Trials [Yarrow/Stookey/Okun]
9. All Mixed Up [Seeger]
10. Danny's Downs [Blanchard]
11. Don't Laugh at Me [Seskin/Shamblin]
12. Home Is Where the Heart Is [Fingerett]
13. There But for Fortune [Ochs]
14. Old Coat [Stookey/Travers/Mez]
15. Because All Men Are Brothers [Bach/Glazer]

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