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In 1941, on some of his first recordings, 22-year-old Pete Seeger joined with the other members of the Almanac Singers to perform union songs on the album Talking Union and Other Songs. Forty-five years later, a 67-year-old Seeger teamed up with Jane Sapp and Si Kahn to record a new album for Flying Fish Records in the same spirit and even using some of the same songs. Most of the disc was recorded at the studio of Fred Hellerman (like Seeger, a former member of the Weavers) in Connecticut with a small band including Hellerman on synthesizer, Arlen Roth on guitar, and John Miller on bass, accompanying Seeger's banjo and 12-string guitar, Sapp's piano, and Kahn's acoustic guitar. But a few tracks ("Talking Union," "I'm Gonna Be an Engineer," "De Colores," "Joe Hill") come from a live recording of Seeger alone made at the People's Church in Chicago. On those songs, Seeger is his usual song-leader self, interacting with an audience. But the studio tracks, on which he uncharacteristically has to deal with other musicians, are the most interesting. As producer Bruce Kaplan acknowledges in his liner notes, this is not "a smooth record" or "a sophisticated record," and what he means is that the players are more concerned with getting their messages of labor solidarity across than in coming up with cooperative arrangements or doing a lot of takes. It sounds like Kahn, who has a good conversational tenor, and Sapp, with her soulful wail, are, like Seeger, accustomed to performing by themselves, and the backup musicians usually seem to be winging it. But this just gives the album a frisky charm. It's as if a bunch of workers who can sing and play happen to have gotten together to swap union songs. And so they do, chronicling the unfair practices of corporate bosses and the struggles of employees to get fair pay and working conditions. Seeger and the Almanacs made these points nearly a century earlier, and sound perfectly relevant today.
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Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Lee Hays, ComposerLyricist - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Millard Lampell, ComposerLyricist - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Walter Robinson, ComposerLyricist - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES OPPENHEIM, ComposerLyricist - Mimi Farina, ComposerLyricist - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Peggy Seeger, ComposerLyricist - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, Composer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
William Broonzy, ComposerLyricist - Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Gil Turner, ComposerLyricist - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Woody Guthrie, ComposerLyricist - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fred Fisher, Composer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - T-Bone Slim, Author
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Maurice Sugar, Author
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Florence Reece, ComposerLyricist - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Molly Jackson, ComposerLyricist - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Earl Robinson, Composer - Alfred Hayes, Author - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Lorre Wyatt, Composer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Banjo, Contributor, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, Transcription, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Kovaly, Arranger, Work Arranger - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Fred Hellerman, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Synthesizer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - PETE SEEGER, Arranger, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals, Background Vocalist, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - M. Taylor, Arranger, Work Arranger - John Miller, Upright Bass, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - S. Rogers, Arranger, Work Arranger - Ralph Chaplin, ComposerLyricist - Si Kahn, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Len Chandler, Arranger, Work Arranger - Arlen Roth, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jane Sapp, Piano, Vocals, Background Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bruce Kaplan, Producer, Mixer, Recording Engineer, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rich Warren, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - F. Petric, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Album review
In 1941, on some of his first recordings, 22-year-old Pete Seeger joined with the other members of the Almanac Singers to perform union songs on the album Talking Union and Other Songs. Forty-five years later, a 67-year-old Seeger teamed up with Jane Sapp and Si Kahn to record a new album for Flying Fish Records in the same spirit and even using some of the same songs. Most of the disc was recorded at the studio of Fred Hellerman (like Seeger, a former member of the Weavers) in Connecticut with a small band including Hellerman on synthesizer, Arlen Roth on guitar, and John Miller on bass, accompanying Seeger's banjo and 12-string guitar, Sapp's piano, and Kahn's acoustic guitar. But a few tracks ("Talking Union," "I'm Gonna Be an Engineer," "De Colores," "Joe Hill") come from a live recording of Seeger alone made at the People's Church in Chicago. On those songs, Seeger is his usual song-leader self, interacting with an audience. But the studio tracks, on which he uncharacteristically has to deal with other musicians, are the most interesting. As producer Bruce Kaplan acknowledges in his liner notes, this is not "a smooth record" or "a sophisticated record," and what he means is that the players are more concerned with getting their messages of labor solidarity across than in coming up with cooperative arrangements or doing a lot of takes. It sounds like Kahn, who has a good conversational tenor, and Sapp, with her soulful wail, are, like Seeger, accustomed to performing by themselves, and the backup musicians usually seem to be winging it. But this just gives the album a frisky charm. It's as if a bunch of workers who can sing and play happen to have gotten together to swap union songs. And so they do, chronicling the unfair practices of corporate bosses and the struggles of employees to get fair pay and working conditions. Seeger and the Almanacs made these points nearly a century earlier, and sound perfectly relevant today.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:47
- Main artists: Pete Seeger Jane Sapp Si Kahn
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Flying Fish
- Genre: Folk/Americana
© 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc. ℗ 1987 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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