And yet another « new » Roger McGuinn « old » participation on a various artists compilation.

This time, it’s a triple CD from 2018 titled “Appleseed's 21st Anniversary Roots And Branches”

Roger McGuinn plays and sings on a duet version of “John Riley” with Judy Collins.

 

---For more than two decades the independent, idealistic Appleseed Recordings label has been releasing new and archival CDs of folk/roots-oriented music by many of the genre's greatest performers.

Appleseed's 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches, a deluxe three-CD, 57-track set, combines highlights from past releases plus many more by a Who's Who of musical giants including Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Joan Baez, Natalie Merchant, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Paxton, and Roger McGuinn.

Moreover, there are nine new/previously unreleased songs by high-profile friends of the label, including Springsteen's "If I Had a Hammer", plus Tom Morello's "This Land Is Your Land", Tom Russell, Tim Robbins and John Wesley Harding.

More than three hours of music are packaged in a digipack that includes a deluxe full-color 32-page booklet with notes about each song and artist and a history of the Appleseed label.---

 

Disc One

1 Pete Seeger: Oh Sacred World
2 Bruce Springsteen: If I Had a Hammer (Exclusive New Track)
3 Tom Morello: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Exclusive New Track)
4 Tim Robbins: Well May the World Go (Exclusive New Track)
5 Joan Baez: I Wish the Wars Were All Over
6 Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Ani Difranco & Anne Hills: Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)
7 Tom Russell: Across the Border (Exclusive New Track)
8 Johnny Clegg: Love in the Time of Gaza
9 John Wesley Harding and Corporal Quorum: Scared of Guns (Amended) (Exclusive New Track)
10 Sweet Honey in the Rock: Second Line Blues
11 Anne Hills: Needle of Death (Exclusive New Track)
12 Natalie Merchant & Friends: There Is No Good Reason
13 The Kennedys: Give Me Back My Country
14 Studs Terkel: Blessed Be the Nation
15 Tom Morello: This Land Is Your Land
16 Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome
17 Pete Seeger: Dr. King on Violence

Disc Two

1 Jesse Winchester: Get It Right One Day (Exclusive New Track)
2 Donovan: Poorman's Sunshine
3 Dick Gaughan: Land of the North Wind
4 Tom Paxton & Anne Hills: Follow That Road
5 Al Stewart: Katherine of Oregon
6 Jonathan Edwards: Surrounded
7 Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
8 Angel Band: Jump Back in the Ditch
9 Eric Andersen: Gonna Go Crazy
10 Tom Rush: What I Know
11 Sweet Honey in the Rock: Idk, But I'm Lol!
12 Lizzie West & the White Buffalo: Portrait of An Artist As a Young Woman (Thank You)
13 Joel Rafael Band with Jackson Browne, Jimmy Lafave & Arlo Guthrie: Stepstone
14 Tom Paxton: Looking for the Moon
15 Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt: Somos El Barco/We Are the Boat
16 John Stewart: There Is Love (The Wedding Song) (Exclusive New Track)
17 Jesse Winchester: Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding
18 Dick Gaughan: When I'm Gone

Disc Three

1 John Gorka: The Water Is Wide
2 David Bromberg with Levon Helm: Bring It with You When You Come
3 Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Roving Gambler
4 Tim Eriksen: Careless Love
5 Donovan: Wild Mountain Thyme (Exclusive New Track)
6 Roger McGuinn with Judy Collins: John Riley
7 John Wesley Harding: Canadee-I-O
8 Bernice Reagon Johnson with Kim & Reggie Harris: Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
9 Pete Seeger: Going Across the Mountain
10 Frank Proffitt: Tom Dooley
11 Guardabarranco: Asturias
12 Lila Downs: El Quinto Regimiento
13 Aoife Clancy: Are You Sleepin', Maggie?
14 Alec Stone Sweet: Mrs. Poer, or, the Concerto
15 Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin: Sow 'Em on the Mountain
16 Steve Young: Little Birdie
17 Mike Seeger & Peggy Seeger: Cindy
18 Sharon Katz & the Peace Train: Sanalwami
19 Danny Glover & Rev. Robert B. Jones, SR: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
20 Kim & Reggie Harris: Wade in the Water
21 John Stewart & Darwin's Army: Bay of Mexico
22 Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane & Vedran Smailovic: Where Have All the Flowers Gone