I wasn't prepared for quite how radiant, gracious and gutsy she would appear both in person and as a performer. It was like watching a master class in folk performance to be frank: a truly positive force. - Karine Polwart
I am writing to thank you for making your wonderful music, doing your wonderful activism, and for letting the two commingle as you have. I am a young woman and a feminist. Your music has shaped my life and guided me through disappointment, disenfranchisement, and cynicism. - Loren Grace
Info
The Peggy Seeger Songbook
The Peggy Seeger Songbook, Warts and All
(OK 64985)
This volume is part songbook, part autobiography, and part social and
political history. The presentation of the 149 songs included here
paints a vibrant portrait of an outspoken artist/advocate and her
musical, personal, and political development. Seeger shares not only
the stories behind the songs, but the situations in her life - and in
the world around her - that prompted their creation. In doing so, she
gives us insights into the inner workings of her song-making process as
well as contributing to our understanding of the important issues
addressed by many of the lyrics. Her best known songs, "Come Fill Up
Your Glasses," "Gonna Be an Engineer" and "The Ballad of Springhill"
have, among others, become classics. This songbook, sprinkled
throughout with drawings by Jacky Fleming, is also just that: a
classic.
This volume is part songbook, part autobiography, and part social and
political history. The presentation of the 149 songs included here
paints a vibrant portrait of an outspoken artist/advocate and her
musical, personal, and political development. Seeger shares not only
the stories behind the songs, but the situations in her life - and in
the world around her - that prompted their creation. In doing so, she
gives us insights into the inner workings of her song-making process as
well as contributing to our understanding of the important issues
addressed by many of the lyrics. Her best known songs, "Come Fill Up
Your Glasses," "Gonna Be an Engineer" and "The Ballad of Springhill"
have, among others, become classics. This songbook, sprinkled
throughout with drawings by Jacky Fleming, is also just that: a
classic.