Springsteen, Seeger and American Song
Springsteen promotes folk music, values
Concert inspired by Seeger, New Orleans
By Curtis Schieber
The Columbus Dispatch
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 PDF version
Setlist: John Henry/O Mary Don't You Weep/Johnny 99/Old Dan Tucker/Eyes on the Prize/Jesse James/Adam Raised a Cain/Erie Canal/My Oklahoma Home/Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)/Mrs. McGrath/How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?/Jacob's Ladder/We Shall Overcome/Open All Night/Pay Me My Money Down - Encore: My City of Ruins/Rag Mama Rag/You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)/When the Saints Go Marching In
From Backstreets.com: Report Form the Road
Video from Columbus, OH concert
Also Check Out Rolling Stone: We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions and brucespringsteen.net
David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation magazine, reviews Springsteen's Seeger Session's: We Shall Overcome Concert and Album. In his review of the concert he writes about Bruce's rendition of Pete Seeger's Bring Them Home
Penned by Pete Seeger during the Vietnam War, "Bring 'Em Home" quickly achieved anthem status in the anti-war movement. Springsteen first recorded the song in January 2006 and added a final lead vocal during his European tour, at a studio in Oslo, Norway. His poignant rendition, performed frequently on the Seeger Sessions tour, adds several new verses and connects the song to a much earlier topical song, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." "Bring 'Em Home" was written in 1965 and originally released on Pete's 1971 Columbia album, "Young vs. Old."
"Bring Them Home" by Pete Seeger with Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco & Steve Earle
Video - young Pete Seeger singing "Bring 'em Home"
Articles about Pete Seeger on peteseeger.net
Pete Seeger on NPR and in Mother Jones
While Mr. Springsteen claims to have approached the material on "The Seeger Sessions" without a political agenda, he acknowledges that context can color things, and suggests that ideology is in the ear of the beholder. "What makes these songs vital, and catch fire now," he said, "is all the connections you're making, in your head, to this moment."
From Born to Strum
By WILL HERMES
NYTimes April 16, 2006
Song of America - The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance)