EDUCATION | EXHIBITIONS: ONE LP@BAND ON THE WALL: Peggy Seeger: Musician

“Columbia Records made a fantastic anthology which was drawn together by Harry Smith way way back - am talking about the 1950’s - '50, ’51, ’52.It contained a small sample of something like four or five dozen folk singers - real folk singers - not like me - I’m a singer of folk songs - but they’re the real ones; from allover the United States. From way down in the bayous of Florida and from up in Minnesota and it had just a snapshot kind of of each one of them.And I still remember a lot of those (sings snippet) ‘He Got Better Things For You’ which was gospel. Then you had (sings snippet) 'Fishing Blues' - wonderful songs.So - Harry Smith - 'The Anthology of American Folk Music'.”Peggy Seeger: On stage, Band on the Wall, Manchester, 18th June 2015Peggy Seeger: The Anthology of Amercian Folk Music- released 1952Peggy Seeger
Peggy Seeger: Musician, Harry Smith: The Anthology of American Folk Music

 

 

“Columbia Records made a fantastic anthology which was drawn together by Harry Smith way way back - am talking about the 1950’s - '50, ’51, ’52. 

It contained a small sample of something like four or five dozen folk singers - real folk singers - not like me - I’m a singer of folk songs - but they’re the real ones; from allover the United States.  

From way down in the bayous of Florida and from up in Minnesota and it had just a snapshot kind of of each one of them. 

And I still remember a lot of those (sings snippet) ‘He Got Better Things For You’ which was gospel. Then you had (sings snippet) 'Fishing Blues' - wonderful songs. 

So - Harry Smith - 'The Anthology of American Folk Music'.” 

 

Peggy Seeger: On stage, Band on the Wall, Manchester, 18th June 2015 

Peggy Seeger: The Anthology of Amercian Folk Music- released 1952 

Peggy Seeger