Fly Down Little Bird CD

MUSIC

FOLK

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Old Bangum ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

2. Dodger Song, The ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

3. Cindy ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

4. Blood-Stained Banders ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

5. Big Bee Suck the Pumpkin Stem ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

6. Where Have You Been, My Good Old Man? ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

7. Little Willie's My Darlin' ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

8. Farmer is the Man, The ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

9. Fod! ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

10. Jennie Jenkins ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

11. My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

12. Poor Little Turtle Dove ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

13. Little Birdie - (live) ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

14. Red River Jig ~ Mike & Peggy Seeger/Mike Seeger/Peggy Seeger

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Liner Note Authors: Alexia Smith; Peggy Seeger.
	Recording information: Boston, MA (04/02/2004); Lexington, VA (04/02/2004); WAMC, Albany, NY (04/02/2004); Boston, MA (08/2008); Lexington, VA (08/2008); WAMC, Albany, NY (08/2008); Boston, MA (11/2008); Lexington, VA (11/2008); WAMC, Albany, NY (11/2008).
	Photographers: Dale Hubert; Catherine McElhannon.
	Mike and Peggy Seeger are the slightly less-famous folksinging siblings of Pete Seeger. Each is actually very well known in folkie circles, but neither has enjoyed the worldwide fame of older brother Pete, though each has been equally dedicated to the performance and preservation of traditional American (and, to some extent, British) tunes and songs; Mike founded the New Lost City Ramblers during the late-'50s folk boom in New York City, while Peggy famously collected and published children's folk songs and eventually married the great English folksinger Ewan MacColl (who wrote "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" for her). The two siblings followed different personal and musical paths over the years, but got back together in 2008, shortly before Mike's death from cancer at age 75, to record a program of songs that they had learned from their mother, the composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. Both are multi-instrumentalists, and on this album they switch instruments regularly, playing various combinations of banjo, fiddle, guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, piano, and other instruments, both of them singing as well. Many of the songs will be familiar to their fellow folkies: numbers like "Little Birdie," "Old Bangum," and "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains" all exist in scores if not hundreds of versions. Others will be less familiar, and surprisingly (given the Seeger family's unapologetic political leanings) only one of them -- the wry "The Farmer's the Man" -- deals in any direct way with the predations of capital. Everything is sung with warm, sweet-spirited directness and the playing is often close to virtuosic, but the sound quality leaves a little bit to be desired; it's rather muted and dull, as if it had been recorded 40 or 50 years earlier. Still, the Seegers' love for the music and for each other comes through loud and clear, and the album is a treasure. ~ Rick Anderson
Producer: Alexia Smith; Mike Seeger; Peggy Seeger
Engineer: Francis Harper; Harold Spivacke; John A. Lomax, Jr.; Charles L. Todd; Alan Lomax; Mike Seeger

Technical Info

	Release Date : 12/21/1999
	Original Release Date : 2011
	Catalog ID : APRCD 1125
	Label : Appleseed Recordings
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00611587112521

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Fly Down Little Bird (2011)

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