Biography

Without Pete Seeger, American folk music as we know it today would be radically different. Seeger was one of modern folk's earliest and most significant architects, from his work in the 1940s with the Almanac Singers (of which Woody Guthrie was a member) and the famed Weavers, to his voice-of-a-generation political music of the 1960s and beyond. He helped adapt America's earliest musical traditions to a politicized post-war environment. In addition to his legendary songs of protest, civil rights, and environmentalism, Seeger is well known for creating wonderful children's music. He continued to record and perform into the 2000s.

Top Tracks

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• A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall

• Abiyoyo

• All My Trials

• America The Beautiful

• Arkansas Traveler

• Aunt Rhody

• Banjo Medley: Cripple Creek/old Joe Clark/leather Britches

• Barbara Allen

• Barbara Allen [barb'ry Ellen] [barbara Ellen]

• Bells Of Rhymney

• Blowin' In The Wind

• Blue Tail Fly

• Boll Weevil [boll Weevil Song] [boll Weevil Blues] [mississippi Boweavil Blues] [boll Weevil And Farmer] [looking For A

• Both Sides Now

• Careless Love [careless Blues] [loveless Love] [reckless Love]

• Chorale From Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

• Cindy

• Coyote, My Little Brother

• Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase

• Darling Corey

• Dear Mr. President

• Deep Blue Sea

• Down By The Riverside

• English Is Cuh-ray-zee

• Erie Canal

• Estadio Chile

• False From True

• Fly Through My Window

• Frankie And Johnny

• Frog Went A-courting

• Get Up And Go

• Go Down Old Hannah

• God Bless The Grass

• Goodnight Irene

• Goodnight, Irene [irene, Goodnight]

• Ground Hog

• Guantanamera

• Gypsy Davy

• He's Long Gone

• Hobo's Lullaby

• Hole In The Bucket

• Home On The Range

• I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag

• I Know An Old Lady (who Swallowed A Fly)

• I Never Will Marry [the Damsel's Lament] [down By The Sea-shore] [one Day As I Rambled]

• If I Had A Hammer

• If It Can't Be Reduced

• I'm Gonna Be An Engineer

• In The Evening (when The Sun Goes Down)

• Interlude #1: Living In The Country

• I've Been Working On The Railroad

• Joe Hill

• John Hardy

• John Riley [pretty Fair Maid] [the Broken Token] [as I Walked Out Some Summer's Morning]

• Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier

• Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

• Last Train To Nuremberg

• Little Boxes

• Living In The Country

• Medley: Cripple Creek/old Joe Clark/ida Red

• Michael, Row The Boat Ashore

• Midnight Special

• Mole In The Ground

• My Little Kitty

• Nameless Lick

• Never Wed An Old Man

• Oh, Had I A Golden Thread

• Oh, Susannah

• Old Blue

• Old Joe Clark

• Old Paint

• One Grain Of Sand

• Peg And Awl

• Poor Boy

• Pretty Polly

• Put Your Finger In The Air

• Riding In My Car (car Car Song)

• River

• Roll Down The Line

• Sailing Down My Golden River

• Shoo Fly

• Skillet Good And Greasy

• Skip To My Lou

• Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

• Summertime

• T.b. Blues

• Talking Dust Bowl Blues

• Talking Union

• The Big Rock Candy Mountain

• The Draft Dodger Rag

• The First Noel

• The Foolish Frog

• The Fox

• The Greenland Fisheries

• The House Carpenter

• The Power And The Glory

• The Water Is Wide

• The Water Is Wide [waly, Waly] [the Brisk Young Lover] [down In The Meadow]

• There Once Was A Woman Who Swallwed A Lie

• This Land Is Your Land

• This Old Car

• Trouble At The Bottom

• Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is A Season)

• Turtle Dove

• 'twas On A Night Like This

• Union Maid

• Wagoner's Lad [my Horses Ain't Hungry] [drunken Hiccups] [lovin' Nancy] [fare You Well, Polly]

• Waist Deep In The Big Muddy

• Water Is Wide (o Waly Waly)

• We Shall Not Be Moved

• We Shall Overcome

• We Sing Out

• Where Have All The Flowers Gone

• Which Side Are You On

• Which Side Are You On?

• Wimoweh

• Wimoweh (mbube)

• Wimoweh [the Lion Sleeps Tonight]

• Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Discography

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• Tomorrow's Children

  Appleseed Records

  2010

• At 89

  Appleseed Records

  2008

• In Prague 1964

  Flyright (UK)

  2001

• Pete

  Living Music

  1996

• Stories and Songs for Little Children

  High Windy Audio

  1994

• Live at Newport

  Vanguard

  1993

• Pete Seeger's Family Concert

  Sony Music Distribution

  1992

• A Fish That's a Song

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1990

• Singalong Demonstration Concert

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1980

• Circles & Seasons

  Warner Bros.

  1979

• Fifty Sail on Newburgh Bay

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1976

• Banks of Marble and Other Songs

  Folkways

  1974

• Pete Seeger & Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street

  Sesame Street

  1974

• Rainbow Race

  Columbia

  1973

• Pete Seeger Young Vs. Old

  Columbia

  1971

• Pete Seeger Now

  CBS Records

  1968

• Pete Seeger Sings and Answers Questions at Ford Forum Hall Boston

  Folkways

  1968

• Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs

  Columbia

  1967

• Abiyoyo and Other Story Songs for Children

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1967

• God Bless the Grass

  Legacy / Columbia

  1966

• Dangerous Songs!?

  Legacy / Columbia

  1966

• WNEW's Story of Selma

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1965

• Little Boxes & Other Broadsides

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1965

• I Can See a New Day

  Columbia

  1964

• Broadsides

  Folkways

  1964

• Strangers and Cousins

  CBS Records

  1964

• Songs of Struggle & Protest: 1930-1950

  Folkways

  1964

• Sing with Seeger!

  1964

• Children's Concert at Town Hall

  Columbia/Legacy

  1963

• Broadside Ballads, Vol. 2

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1963

• Pete Seeger at Carnegie Hall

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1963

• Sing Out! Hootenanny

  Folkways

  1963

• Activity Songs

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1962

• The Bitter and the Sweet

  Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

  1962

• The 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1962

• Pete Seeger at the Village Gate, Vol. 2:

  Folkways

  1962

• American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5 [1962]

  Folkways

  1962

• Indian Summer

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1961

• Songs of Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon

  1961

• Story Songs

  1961

• American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1961

• Gazette, Vol. 2

  Folkways

  1961

• Sing Out with Pete!

  Folkways

  1961

• Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vol. 1

  Folkways

  1961

• Champlain Valley Songs

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1960

• Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1960

• Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon

  Folkways

  1960

• Songs of the Civil War

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1960

• Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1960

• Folk Songs for Young People

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1959

• American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3 [1959]

  Folkways

  1959

• American Playparties

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1959

• Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes

  Folkways

  1959

• Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry at Carnegie Hall

  Folkways

  1958

• Gazette

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1958

• Sleep-Time: Songs & Stories

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1958

• American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2 [1958]

  Folkways

  1958

• American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1 [1957]

  Folkways

  1957

• American Industrial Ballads

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1957

• American Ballads

  Folkways

  1957

• Love Songs for Friends and Foes

  Folkways

  1956

• With Voices Together We Sing

  Folkways

  1956

• Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1955

• Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Bigger Fishes

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1955

• Camp Songs

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1955

• The Folksinger's Guitar Guide, Vol. 1: An Instruction Record

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1955

• Frontier Ballads, Vol. 2

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1954

• Goofing-Off Suite

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1954

• Frontier Ballads

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1954

• Frontier Ballads, Vol. 1

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1954

• How to Play the 5-String Banjo

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

  1954

• A Pete Seeger Concert

  1953

• American Folk Songs for Children

  Prism Platinum

  1953

• Pete Seeger

  St. Clair

  1953

• Songs to Grow On, Vol. 2: School Days

  Folkways

  1951