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DiscountDelight - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $9.60
Your Save: $ 10.38 ( 52% )
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828768286722
Format: DualDisc
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2006-04-25
Studio: Sony
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Summary: Dualdisc issue
Comment: Is a DualDisc a DualDisc if one is unable to play one side of it?
The tiny disclaimer saying that the audio side of the disc does not conform to CD specifications and will not play on some CD and DVD players makes the entire DualDisc concept a joke. Shame on you guys. I have to give the album 3 stars since half of the disc is unplayable.
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Summary: Useless waste of time
Comment: I have absolutely no use for any "record" company that intentionaly breaks the media they distribute. This CD will not play in my computer. Oh well. First Sony distributes a root kit (computer security risk) on their CDs, then they just break them. My opinion is boycott Sony CDs. End of story.
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Summary: Nobody Does It Better
Comment: I love American roots music and folk songs and Bruce, so this is a real treat. I have been hooked on the Boss since I first heard Born to Run, about three decades ago. I have been disappointed a few times over the years, but NOT this time. A real American music man singing great American songs, Springsteen gives these standards a new edge while retaining the spirit of the original roots. Maybe this won't be for everyone, but I loved it.
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Summary: Incredible!
Comment: Enough people have reviewed this CD that I won't elaborate too far, except to say that the album is incredibly good. Seeger's hooky folk songs, like "Dan Tucker" and "Pay Me my Money Down," sung by a great American performer from the same tradition of blue-collar, populist music, combined with an array of traditional instrumentation from a variety of styles (cajun, zydeco, folk, bluegrass) -- all that adds up to songs that I find myself singing in my head all day . . . and everyone else I know who has it does the same thing. Anyone who like traditional music will love this CD.
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Summary: Who knew?
Comment: Who knew this would be so entertaining and rewarding? I certainly didn't, as the description hardly sounded promising. Old, musty folk tunes from that simpering, self righteous folk ninnie? My reaction was not exactly "put me in, Coach". But hey, what's that old saying, somethin' bout proof and puddin'? Well folks, the proof is certainly here. These tunes are surprisingly rollicking, rocking, and meaty fare. And, Bruce, in his inimitable way, finds the relevance to today's world in them.
A great, rewarding listen, that also happens to be just fun as hell to listen to.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The premise was simple. Bruce Springsteen invites a dozen or so New York City musicians--packing banjos, fiddles, accordions and the like--to his New Jersey farmhouse for a three-day hootenanny, and tape is rolling. The results are sublime, his 21st album featuring their versions of songs harvested from Springsteen's dog-eared LPs by Pete Seeger. Not all written by Seeger, the songs are how the American folk icon interpreted them, and these organic recordings, with no rehearsals or overdubs, pay tribute with the simplicity and spontaneity he intended. It's not hard to link Springsteen's dissatisfaction with American politics to the protest song "We Shall Overcome" or even the Irish ballad "Mrs. McGrath," where he alters the lyrics to read, "I'd rather have my son as he used to be/Than the King of America and his whole navy." But the beauty of these Seeger Sessions are pieces that underscore the mood of the bandleader, which borders on down-home amusement: the bluegrass outlaw ballad "Jesse James," the Dylanesque "Pay Me My Money Down" and the euphoric "Jacob's Ladder," a gumbo-and-whiskey-fueled romp that could pass for the closing hymn at the Church of Asbury Park. --Scott Holter
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