We Shall Overcome the Devils and Dust

The Boss is putting out a new record of Pete Seeger classics. I read a story at lunch today about it in The New York Times. My first thought: "Again to Paradise..."

Here it is from the man himself: "In 1997 I recorded "We Shall Overcome" for Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs Of Pete Seeger. Growing up a rock n' roll kid I didn't know a lot about Pete's music or the depth of his influence. So I headed to the record store and came back with an armful of Pete Seeger records. Over the next few days of listening, the wealth of songs, their richness and power changed what I thought I knew about "folk music." Hearing this music and our initial '97 session for Pete's record sent me off, casually at first, on a quest....It was a carnival ride, the sound of surprise and the pure joy of playing. Street corner music, parlor music, tavern music, wilderness music, circus music, church music, gutter music, it was all there waiting in those songs, some more than one hundred years old. It rocked, it swung, it rolled. It was a way back and forward to the informality, the freeness and the eclecticism of my earliest music and then some."