Pete Seeger & Big Bill Broonzy – Evanston, IL (10/25/56)

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1. Thanks, this is great.

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2. Thank you

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   Mat Brewster says:
   December 12, 2015 at 5:58 pm

   This is one of my all time favorite recordings.

   DylanDave says:
   December 12, 2015 at 6:33 pm

   Luvly stuff!!

   Incidentally Mat, nice run of JGB posts. out of interest, are these coming from the FF lists I gave you or have you found another seam to mine?

   In case you missed it this is a good FF link to grab with premium (1.8 GB!!)

   Its the Greta Dane 4 CD live anthology with full book scans. A classic boot from the mid 90s and still well worth a listen.

   For those like me currently running on free d/l, just get it running, go to bed and pray.

   Mat Brewster says:
   December 12, 2015 at 11:51 pm

   Nope those come from another source than yours. I actually went back and tried a bunch of those FF links you sent the other day and they seem to be all dead. I had grabbed a few back when you sent them, but missed a bunch due to not keeping up with the slow downloads.

   Have had that Rock N Roll Cowboy comp for awhile now. Great stuff.

   DylanDave says:
   December 12, 2015 at 7:05 pm Edit

   ps tragic to think that less than 2 years later Big Bill would be dead. Throat cancer took one of the great voices of the blues. Also difficult to imagine that almost 60 years later Mr Seeger would still be singing some of these songs.

   Actually for the ‘1800s men’ (as they were often cited, and liked to wear as a badge of authenticity) such as Big Bill and Sonny Boy Williamson etc, to make it into their 60s and 70s was quite an achievement, in view of their lifestyle and the hardships they must have lived thru.

   ps the original post for that Neil is on g101 – Mr Wolfsbane if memory serves. Whenever I have a subscription i head straight for the extremely large single links that you have little chance of grabbing otherwise.

   Yo’ll find some similarly huge (but excellent anthologies) of The Band and Tom Petty at Bootleg Kingdom if you are of a similar mind and looking for max bang for your buck!
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   Mat Brewster says:
   December 12, 2015 at 11:55 pm

   Pete’s a real hero of mine. We took a holiday in Japan a few years back and the little inn we stayed in Osaka (I think, could have been Hiroshima) had a little plaque noting that Pete had stayed there with his signature and his little banjo doodle. I was more excited by that than just about anything else.

   Thanks for the heads up on Bootleg Kingdom. Like I needed another site full of FF links for me to fill up my hard drives with 😉

   westcoastpaeb says:
   February 16, 2016 at 7:48 pm

   Mat, thanks
   Here’s a more detailed track listing including #14 Michael Row the Boat Ashore
   which wasn’t listed.

   Pete Seeger & Big Bill Broonzy

   All of the songs on Set 1 except the Frog and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine were
   released in 1965 on a Verve Folkways LP titled Pete Seeger & Big Bill
   Broonzy In Concert but some of the spoken intros were edited

   Set I 66:50
   01 Intro 0:50
   02 Midnight Special (Broonzy and Seeger) 3:41
   03 intro 1:52
   04 Backwater Blues (Broonzy) 3:04
   05 Intro 1:08
   06 The Frog (Seeger) 6:32
   07 Intro 0:45
   08 Green Corn (Seeger) 2:52
   09 Intro 1:31
   10 This Train Is Bound For Glory (Broonzy) 3:13
   11 Intro 1:06
   12 Mrs. McGrath (Seeger) 1:33
   13 Intro 4:25
   14 Crawdad Song (Broonzy) 2:40
   15 Talk and Hillel and Steel Drum demonstration (Seeger) 8:20
   16 Intro 0:32
   17 Glory Of Love (Broonzy) 2:32
   18 Intro 0:19
   19 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (Seeger) 2:52
   20 Intro 1:41
   21 Goofing Off Suite (Seeger) 4:10
   22 Intro 1:00
   23 Willie Mae (Broonzy) 2:51
   24 Intro 0:32
   25 Why Don’t You Come Home Bill Bailey (Broonzy) 2:10
   26 Intro 1:16
   27 Alberta (Broonzy) 2;24
   28 Outro 0:41

   Set 2 66:40

   1 Deep Blue Sea (fades in) Seeger 2:37
   2 intro to Que Bonita Bandera 0:40
   3 Que Bonita Bandera (Seeger) 3:49
   4 into to Aimee McPherson 3:32
   5 Aimee McPherson (Seeger) 2:39
   6 intro to Student Songs 0:13
   7 Student Songs (Seeger) 4:39
   8 intro Ragupati Ragava Rajah Ram 1:26
   9 Ragupati Ragava Rajah Ram (Seeger) 1:53
   10 intro Black Fly 0:20
   11 Black Fly (Seeger) 2:15
   12 intro to Wimoweh 2:39
   13 Wimoweh (Seeger) 1:58
   14 Michael Row the Boat Ashore (Seeger) 2:47
   15 intro to Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad 2:06
   16 Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad (Broonzy) 2:30
   17 intro to Momma I Saw A Boo-Boo 0:18
   18 Momma I Saw A Boo-Boo (Seeger) 0:45
   19 intro to Ananias 1:25
   20 Ananias (Broonzy) 2:25
   21 intro to A Soldier’s Prayer 0:28
   22 A Soldier’s Prayer (Seeger) 3:17
   23 intro to John Henry (Broonzy) 0:49
   24 John Henry (Broonzy) 5:13
   25 Come Along With Me (Seeger) 2:54
   26 intro to In The Evenin’ (When The Sun Go Down) 1:10
   27 In The Evenin’ (When The Sun Go Down) (Broonzy) 4:15
   28 intro to Down By The Riverside 0:35
   29 Down By The Riverside (Seeger and Broonzy) 5:43

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