Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt - A More Perfect Union
  • God's Counting on Me...God's Counting on You (Bruce Springsteen)
  • Old Apples
  • Keep the Flame Alive
  • Memories Out of Mud (Dar Williams)
  • A More Perfect Union (Tom Morello)
  • This Old Man Revisited (Steve Earle, Dar Williams)
  • These Days in Zimbabwe
  • Somebody Else's Eye
  • Strange Lullabye
  • Somos el Barco/We Are the Boat (Emmylou Harris)
  • Howling for Our Supper
  • My Neighbor's Needs
  • Wonderful Friends
  • A Toast to the Times
  • Fields of Harmony
  • Bountiful River
  • God's Counting on Me...God's Counting on You (Bruce Springsteen)
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (05:03) [11.56 MB]
  • Old Apples
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (04:43) [10.8 MB]
  • Keep the Flame Alive
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:08) [7.17 MB]
  • Memories Out of Mud (Dar Williams)
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (04:38) [10.6 MB]
  • A More Perfect Union (Tom Morello)
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (06:01) [13.79 MB]
  • This Old Man Revisited (Steve Earle, Dar Williams)
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:57) [9.03 MB]
  • These Days in Zimbabwe
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:48) [8.69 MB]
  • Somebody Else's Eye
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:12) [7.32 MB]
  • Strange Lullabye
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (02:50) [6.5 MB]
  • Somos el Barco/We Are the Boat (Emmylou Harris)
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (04:56) [11.29 MB]
  • Howling for Our Supper
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:24) [7.77 MB]
  • My Neighbor's Needs
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:09) [7.22 MB]
  • Wonderful Friends
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:30) [8.02 MB]
  • A Toast to the Times
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:56) [8.99 MB]
  • Fields of Harmony
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (03:22) [7.71 MB]
  • Bountiful River
    Genre: Folk
    MP3 (10:24) [23.79 MB]
Biography
PETE SEEGER & LORRE WYATT:
"A More Perfect Union" (APR CD 1130)
Pete Seeger, 93, Surveys Past, Present, Future on Two New CD with Old and New Friends Wyatt, Springsteen, Morello, Earle, Harris, Williams and others

"A More Perfect Union," released on September 25, is a newly recorded collaboration between Pete Seeger and longtime friend and fellow singer-songwriter Lorre Wyatt, on which the duo is joined by newer generations of socially conscious musicians Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, and Dar Williams, among others.

Seeger’s abiding mission – to inspire sociopolitical involvement and personal inclusiveness through song and example – shines through the 14 songs newly co-written with Wyatt. The duo address recent and ongoing political, economic and environmental issues alongside gentler appreciations of life’s good moments, meditations on the future, and exhortations to individual action.

There’s more to this CD than political commentary. Among the more lighthearted songs are the delightfully self-deprecating “Old Apples” (“…still can make good sauce”) and “Howling for Our Supper,” a pet’s-eye view of Pete and Lorre writing “another pointless ditty” when it’s feeding time. On the heartwarming side, there are “Wonderful Friends,” first heard in a different version on one of two of Seeger’s Grammy-winning Appleseed CDs, 2008's "At 89," “A Toast to the Times,” and the closing “Bountiful River.”

Throughout the CD, Pete and Lorre share and split vocal duties; Pete plays banjo and acoustic 12-string guitar, while Lorre handles the six-string acoustic and additional banjo. Providing a warm instrumental bed are co-producers David Bernz (guitar, banjo, vocals, harmonica) and engineer-percussionist Jeff Haynes, and a host of musicians based near Pete’s Beacon, N.Y., home. The use of a wide variety of percussives adds an exotic Third World tint to many of the songs.

Seeger, 93, and Wyatt, more than 25 years his junior, have been friends for more than 40 years and have co-written several dozen songs in that time. New Jersey-based Wyatt was sidelined for much of the last 15 years recovering from a stroke but has fully recovered and is “back on [his] musical feet again.” Wyatt's best-known composition, "Somos el Barco/We Are the Boat," previously recorded by Seeger, Holly Near, and Peter Paul and Mary, among others, is reprised here in a new version that includes guest vocals by Emmylou Harris.

This CD is being released simultaneously with another new Seeger recording, the 2-CD "Pete Remembers Woody," a mixture of Pete's spoken, firsthand reminiscences of his friend and fellow musical activist, the late Woody Guthrie, and recordings of Guthrie-written songs by Pete, Woody's son Arlo, Work o' the Weavers, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, and other socially conscious musicians.
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  • Members:
    Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Dar Williams, Emmylou Harris
  • Sounds Like:
    A CD
  • Influences:
    Woody Guthrie
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    08/15/12
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