Their Complete General Recordings
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Their Complete General Recordings is a 1996 album of 1941 recordings by the Almanac Singers
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Almanac Singers
The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who, as their name indicates, specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with the labor movement...
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Reception
Bruce Eder, writing for Allmusic wrote of the compilation "there isn't a bad song here" but regarding the liner notes commented "The notes are the only flaw, presenting an oversimplified history of the Almanacs that is a bit vague on details."Track listing
Track | Song Title | Lead Vocals |
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1. | Blow Ye Winds Heigh Ho | Pete Seeger |
2. | Away, Rio | Pete Hawes |
3. | Blow The Man Down | Woody Guthrie |
4. | House of the Rising Sun | Woody Guthrie |
5. | Ground Hog | Pete Seeger |
6. | State of Arkansas | Lee Hays |
7. | The Weaver's Song | Ensemble |
8. | I Ride An Old Paint | Woody Guthrie |
9. | Hard, Ain't It Hard | Woody Guthrie |
10. | The Dodger Song | Lee Hays |
11. | Greenland Fishing | Pete Seeger |
12. | The Golden Vanity | Pete Seeger |
13. | The Coast of High Barbary | Pete Seeger |
14. | Haul Away, Joe | Pete Hawes |
Personnel
- Woody GuthrieWoody GuthrieWoodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
– guitar, harmonica, vocal - Pete Hawes – vocal, possibly guitar
- Lee Hays – vocal
- Millard LampellMillard LampellMillard Lampell was an American movie and television screenwriter who first became publicly known as a member of the Almanac Singers in the 1940s....
– vocal - Pete SeegerPete SeegerPeter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...
as Pete Bowers – banjo, recorder, vocal