Pete Seeger - Birds Beasts Bugs & Fishes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This album exhibits Pete Seeger's omnivorous approach to music. Here, he plays a variety of instruments, and this collection features a far-ranging repertoire. Seeger's musical travels took him to workers' camps, military barracks, and to the Library of Congress's archives, collecting, learning, and singing songs all the way.

In this collection of live recordings, Pete Seeger plays some of his favorite Woody Guthrie tunes. Classics such as Pretty Boy Floyd, Reuben James, and This Land is Your Land are included alongside less well known Guthrie tunes such as Round and Round (a song about Einstein's theory of relativity), Miss Pavlichenko, and Roll on Columbia. In typical Seeger style, he frequently encourages the audience to participate during the recordings, and he teaches the audience about the tunes as well, engaging them in stories about the songs and the Dust Bowl Troubadour himself.

Iconic folk singer Pete Seeger describes the music of Lead Belly as Inchsome of the best songs we'll ever know.Inch on this 11-track recording, Seeger pays tribute to the legendary blues musician and 12-string guitar virtuoso he also called a friend. Performed live with both exuberance and deference, the selections on this recording present a small fraction of Lead Belly's extensive repertoire but include greats such as InchGoodnight Irene,Inch InchMidnight Special,Inch and InchAlabama Bound.Inch Sleeve notes written by Seeger include a biography of Lead Belly and recount the origins of their friendship, and what it was that made Lead Belly the artist he was.