We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Occupation
- Bruce Springsteen - guitar, harmonica, mandolin, organ, percussion, piano, vocals, backing vocals
- Art Baron - tuba
- Frank Bruno - guitar, backing vocals
- Jeremy Chatzky - Bass, Backing Vocals
- Mark Clifford - Banjo, Backing Vocals
- Larry Eagle - drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Charlie Giordano - accordion, organ, harmonium, piano
- Lisa Lowell - Backing Vocals
- Edward Manion - saxophone, backing vocals
- Mark Pender - trumpet, backing vocals
- Patti Scialfa - backing vocals
- Soozie Tyrell - violin, backing vocals
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is an album that Bruce Springsteen has recorded with the Seeger Sessions band and released in 2006 under Columbia Records.
General
In 1997 Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome for a Tribute plate for Pete Seeger, but as he himself wrote in the liner notes:
So he bought a few albums and was overwhelmed. By Soozie Tyrell, the violin player in the E Street Band, he met some musicians from New York to know, including some that are already on the tribute album mitmachten and 2005 and 2006 there were two one-day sessions. You can call the shots live recordings, as the recording took place without sample and you can hear Springsteen, as he announces the name of the musician or new instrument groups. The album is the first of Springsteen, consisting exclusively of cover material and differs not only from Springsteen's bisherigem work, but there are also differences among the recordings of the songs that Pete Seeger has made himself. While Seeger plays mostly just orchestrate his songs, Springsteen's arrangements are lush. The selection includes work songs, spirituals and protest songs, it is possible the album and the song selection as Springsteen's subtle commentary on the state of America to see.
In the United States the album was released on DualDisc, one side contains the CD, on the second film about the recording and the album in PCM stereo. In Europe, the album contains a CD of the album and a DVD of the film. In addition to the CD edition there is the album as LP. The album comes with a booklet with liner notes by Bruce Springsteen, as it contains the texts and notes on each song.
The album reached the Billboard Top 200 rank 3
Title list
CD
DualDisc extra title
American Land Edition Extra tracks
DVD
The DVD contains a 40 minute video (directed by Thom Zimny ) about the recording of the CD with comments by the artist as well as four live tour videos of How Can A Poor Man ... Bring ' Em Home, American country and Pay Me My Money Down.
Criticism
- Rolling Stone: "These big -band treatments combine Dixieland brass, cantina accordions and barn -dance fiddles [ ... ] " ( " The Big Band combines Dixilandbläser, Cantina accordion and violin from the dance in the barn [ ... ]")
- Entertainment Weekly: ". He is not afraid to mix in some merriment with the message" ( "He is not afraid to mix gaiety in the message." )
- Q: " It's good to hear Springsteen with the pressure off, tapping deep into the bedrock of American music and singing and playing for the sheer joy of it. " ( "It's good to hear Springsteen without pressure, deep- American in the past Music dipping, playing and singing just for the sheer joy of it. " )
- Q: ". It Proved to be a rip- roaring masterstroke " ( "It proves to be a great masterpiece. " )
- Mojo: " [ ... ] this is a Springsteen as you've never heard him before [ ... ] " ("[ ... ] it's a Springsteen, as you have never heard of him [ ... ] " )
Awards
- Grammy: Best Traditional Folk Album in 2007
- Rank 29 Rolling Stone "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006 "
- Rank 16 Q Magazine " 100 Greatest Albums of 2006"