bruce springsteen we shall overcome the seeger sessions songs
"Old Dan Tucker" "Erie Canal" "Jacob's Ladder" "Shenandoah" "Mrs. McGrath" "We Shall Overcome" "My Oklahoma Home" "Jesse James"
title: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions text: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is the fourteenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. It peaked at number three on the "Billboard" 200 and won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album at the 49th Grammy Awards. This is Springsteen's first and so far only album of entirely non-Springsteen material and contains his interpretation of thirteen folk music songs made popular by activist folk musician Pete Seeger. As an activist and artist of folk music, Seeger did not write any of the songs on the album. His life's work focused on popularizing and title: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions text: Soozie Tyrell, the violinist in the E Street Band, Springsteen hooked up with a group of lesser-known musicians from New Jersey and New York City, and they recorded in an informal, large band setting in Springsteen's Colts Neck, New Jersey farm. In addition to Tyrell, previous Springsteen associates The Miami Horns as well as wife Patti Scialfa augmented the proceedings. This group would become The Sessions Band. The subsequent Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour expanded on the album's musical approach. The album, like its predecessor "Devils and Dust", has been released on DualDisc, in a CD/DVD double title: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions text: on the "Sowing the Seeds" charity album. A studio version of "Bring 'Em Home" was also released by Sony as an internet download. During these sessions Springsteen also first recorded "Long Walk Home". This version remains unreleased although it was performed during this tour and would eventually be re-recorded for his next album, 2007's "Magic". Two live versions of "American Land" were released however the studio recording from these sessions has yet to surface. Springsteen would re-record the song for his 2012 album, "Wrecking Ball". We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is the fourteenth title: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions text: songs traditional or public domain with unknown songwriters, arranged by Bruce Springsteen, unless otherwise noted. A handful of outtakes went unreleased from the final cut of the album. Springsteen would later release some of these on the "American Land" version of the album while songs such as the instrumental "Once Upon a Time in the West" was released on the "We All Love Ennio Morricone" album, a cover of Pete Seeger's "Hobo's Lullaby" made its way onto the "Give Us Your Poor" charity album. A re-recorded version of Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad", which featured Pete Seeger, was released title: The Sessions Band text: Soozie Tyrell, and recorded a number of songs on November 2, 1997. These included "We Shall Overcome", which was released on the 1998 tribute album, "". The group was then disbanded for an extended period. In late 2004, while reviewing material for a possible follow-up to his "Tracks" box set, Springsteen stumbled upon these recordings and decided to release them as a stand-alone project. There was not enough material, however, so he reformed the band for what would become known as the Second Seeger Session on March 19, 2005. The third and, so far, final Seeger Session took place on