1. Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Tommy Sands & Delores Keane with Vedran Smailovic
2. Kisses Sweeter than Wine - Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt
3. The Water Is Wide - Urban, Susan
4. Of Time and Rivers Flowing
5. My Name Is Liza Kalvelage
6. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
7. Festival of Flowers
8. Step by Step -
9. Blessed Be the Nation
10. My Father's Mansion - Billy Bragg & Eliza Carthy
11. Sailing Down My Golden River
12. Goofing off Suite
13. Those Three Are On My Mind - Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie
14. How Can I Keep from Singing? - Urban, Susan
15. All Mixed Up
16. Empty Pocket Blues - Ronnie Gilbert
17. Get Up and Go
18. Old Riley - Urban, Susan
19. If I Had a Hammer
20. Wimoweh - Gilbert, Ronnie
21. We Shall Overcome - Horton, Zilphia
22. The Bells of Rhymney - Davies, Idris
23. Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
24. False from True
25. Letter to Eve
26. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
27. All My Children of the Sun
28. Living in the Country
29. One Grain of Sand
30. Old Father Hudson-Sailing Down Dirty Stream
31. The Torn Flag
32. Doublin' - Urban, Susan
33. To Everyone in the World - Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer
34. Over the Hills - Urban, Susan
35. I Come and Stand at Every Door - Hikmet, Nazim
36. Rainbow Race - Donovan
37. Quiet Early Morning
38. Oh, Sacred World - Studs Terkel
39. And Still I Am Searching
Amazon.com essential recording
A pretty stunning group of socially conscious performers (from Bonnie Raitt to Billy Bragg) join in tribute to the inspirational music and life of Pete Seeger on this expansive 2 CD set. The grand selection of songs is well-annotated with notes from the artists and Seeger himself about each piece and its place in the pantheon. Among the many highlights are Bruce Springsteen's heartfelt "We Shall Overcome," John Trudell's tense "Torn Flag," actor Tim Robbins's rap-like "All My Children of the Sun," and Ani DiFranco's quiet, brooding "My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage." Further listening: the Smithsonian/Folkways release of If I Had a Hammer, a remarkable collection of Seeger singing his own songs. --Michael Ruby
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger
- Audio CD: 0 pages (1998-03-17)
- Publisher: Appleseed Records
- Label: Appleseed Records
- Studio: Appleseed Records
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 11 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #69722
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Summary: took a few listens 2008-01-31
Comment: Upon first listen, I hated it. It just seemed bland, soulless, and unoriginal. I left it in the player for awhile, and what do you know, it grew on me big time. I think I was just hung up on these not sounding like the originals very much, or something like that. I still hate the cheesy synth-strings in the opener, but those voices made it one of my favorite tracks of the set.
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Summary: Great Variety and Inspirational Songs 2007-02-26
Comment: Pete Seeger is the genuine article. A man who has devoted his life to using his gifts and talents to do his part to make the world a more humane place. His music sung by him is a unique contribution. This album combining Seeger's own voice with a fine collection of collaborators honoring him may even be better. If not better, at least more engaging when listening to the whole album thanks to the variety of voices and stylings. If you want pure Pete Seeger, he has plenty for you. If you are interested in a fresh and honest interpretation of his work, this is a good source.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: What an amazing tribute... 2000-11-13
Comment: In agreeing with all the other top-star reviews in this list, I want to add that part of what makes Pete Seeger such a treasure is the timelessness of his writing. Reggae Pete? Why not! Like Shakespeare, adapting classics for modern tastes only emphasizes their universality. This tribute makes it clear that Pete's music belongs in the global culture, for all generations present and future to discover and make their own.On a separate note, I want to direct America-centric readers to the work of Tommy Sands, a great friend of Pete's who sings the title song. North-of-Ireland Irish, Tommy follows in Pete's peace-activist footsteps, and deserves the international recognition he has received for his work... Slàinte!
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Yum... whoa... WOW! 2000-09-15
Comment: You'll hear your favorites on this album, and you'll hear songs new to you that will blow you away.
Besides being a collection of songs honoring Seeger, these are wonderful on their own. Re-release these as singles, and they will be hits in the folk-music circles, and could hold their own on some more popular stations (like Chicago's WXRT).
For me, I loved Studs Terkel reading "Blessed Be the Nation," Jackson Browne/Bonnie Raitt singing, "Kisses Sweeter than Wine," and the deeply haunting "My Father's Mansion" as sung by Billy Bragg and Eliza Carthy in a celtic flavor.
Hearing Donovan's version of "My Rainbow Race" was refreshing, and Dick Gaughan's dramatic rendering of "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" knocked my socks off. Surprising me was Tim Robbins' "All My Children of the Sun." So he can sing, too? Amazing.
Listen to Greg Brown singing "Sailing Down My Golden River." He has a Johnny Cash thing going on when he sings it, don't you think? Check it out. Very cool.
There are others, some 39 songs in all, and each I honestly liked. No duds, no "why did they put that on the album" songs.
I fully recommend this album.
Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!!! I LOVE Pete Seeger! 1999-01-05
Comment: I just heard this 2cd set and am blown away by it! I didn't realize he had written all those songs! I loved the reggae song, and all the others. I work at two libraries. One library had it, and I am going to buy this for my other library, and a copy for me, since it has all the notes from Pete and the artists who sing his songs. EVERYONE should hear this!
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