Title: Gazette, Vol. 2 Artist: Pete Seeger Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093070250222 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 2012-05-30 Number of Discs: 1
In the liner notes to this second volume of topical songs, Irwin Silber writes, "Traditional folk song, in addition to it's inherent artistic worth and emotion-fulfilling qualities, has always served as the 'living newspaper' of history." This "living newspaper" includes songs about the Centralia, Illinois mine disaster and the destruction of Hiroshima.
Tracks: 1.1 Tomorrow Is a Highway 1.2 The Dying Miner 1.3 Bourgeois Blues 1.4 The Literacy Test Song 1.5 Fayette County 1.6 Moorsoldaten (Peat Bog Soldiers) 1.7 Hold the Line 1.8 When a Fellow Is Out of a Job 1.9 The Rand Hymn 1.10 The Crow on the Cradle 1.11 I Come and Stand at Every Door 1.12 The Easter Marchers 1.13 The Jack Ash Society
