Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: Seeger Sessions [Japan]
Q: Ranked #16 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006" -- "[I]t proved to be a rip-roaring, ramshackle masterstroke."
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CD Details
- Released: May 29, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Sony / Bmg Japan
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - p.57
4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith his first-ever album of songs written by other people, it feels like he's turned to the music of our shared past to find a moral compass for a nation that's gone off the rails."Rolling Stone - p.106
Ranked #29 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "These big-band treatments combine Dixieland brass, cantina accordions and barn-dance fiddles..."Entertainment Weekly - p.134
"Enlivened by flailing banjos, tub-thumping horns, and hopped up accordions....[He] isn't afraid to mix in some merriment with the message." -- Grade: A-Q - p.112
3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t'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."Q - p.125
Ranked #16 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006" -- "[I]t proved to be a rip-roaring, ramshackle masterstroke."No Depression - p.123
"[T]he] album deftly balances such deeply spiritual forays with a lot of upbeat material....Bringing a deep personal connection to some of the most quintessentially American songs ever written."Mojo (Publisher) - p.100
4 stars out of 5 -- "It takes easily five seconds to discover this is a Springsteen as you've never heard him before....A big band of little-knowns tumbles and jumbles diverse folk idioms all around him..."Tracks:
- 1.Old Dan Tucker
- 2.Jesse James
- 3.Mrs. McGrath
- 4.O Mary Don't You Weep
- 5.John Henry
- 6.Erie Canal
- 7.Jacob's Ladder
- 8.My Oklahoma Home
- 9.Eyes on the Prize
- 10.Shenandoah
- 11.Pay Me My Money Down
- 12.We Shall Overcome
- 13.Froggie Went a Courtin'
- 14.John Henry Pay Me My Money Down (Disc 02 DVD)
- 15.Buffalo Gals Erie Canal
- 16.O Mary Dont You Weep Shenandoha
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