Title: Pete Seeger stands on his own merit - The Boss just muddies the water
Product review: I have fond memories of a willowy Pete Seeger standing alone in the center of a stage with a banjo draped over his shoulder and holding an audience in the palm of his hand. Seeger needed no overblown production or rambling cross-cultural arrangements to get his point across. He was just Pete and he was just magnificent.I preface the next passage by saying I'm a huge Springsteen fan, but here's the caveat - it's obvious from this recording that he and his co-conspirators have no feel for traditional or "folk" music. The accompaniment on this recording is so heavy-handed that the melodies get totally lost, not to mention the message that many of these tunes carried in their original form. It's just way too much of a not-so-good thing.Traditional music is about simplicity. This project is far too complicated for its own good and more is definitely not better in this case. If I could give it less than one star, I would.Sorry, Boss.
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