2018 three CD release. 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 by a Who's Who of musical giants including Pete Seeger, Al Stewart, Donovan, Tom Rush, Sweet Honey in the Rock, David Bromberg, Jonathan Edwards, Tom Paxton, and Jesse Winchester with nine new/previously unreleased songs by high-profile friends of the label including Bruce Springsteen, rap/metal guitarist/activist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Prophets of Rage), Americana titan Tom Russell, actor/musician/social justice advocate Tim Robbins and singer/songwriter/ novelist 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. The new/previously unreleased/exclusive tracks: On disc 1: Bruce Springsteen: "If I Had a Hammer" / Tom Morello: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" / Tim Robbins: "Well May the World Go" / Tom Russell: "Across the Border" / John Wesley Harding (with Corporal Quorum): "Scared of Guns (Amended)" / Anne Hills: "Needle of Death" On disc 2: Jesse Winchester: "Get It Right One Day" / John Stewart: "There is Love (The Wedding Song)" On disc 3: Donovan: "Wild Mountain Thyme"

Tracklist:

Pete Seeger: "Oh Sacred World"
Bruce Springsteen:"If I Had a Hammer"
Tom Morello: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
Tim Robbins: "Well May the World Go"
Joan Baez: "I Wish the Wars Were All Over"
Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Ani Difranco, Steve Earle ; Anne Hills: "Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)"
Tom Russell: "Across the Border"
Johnny Clegg: "Love in the Time of Gaza"
John Wesley Harding (With Corporal Quorum): "Scared of Guns (Amended)" 1
Sweet Honey in the Rock: "Second Line Blues" 1
Anne Hills: "Needle of Death" 1
Natalie Merchant and Friends: "There Is No Good Reason" 1
The Kennedys: "Give Me Back My Country" 1
Studs Terkel: "Blessed Be the Nation" 1
Tom Morello: "This Land Is Your Land" 1
Bruce Springsteen: "We Shall Overcome" 1
Pete Seeger: "DR. King on Violence" 1
Jesse Winchester: "Get It Right One Day" 1
Donovan: "Poorman's Sunshine" 2
Dick Gaughan: "Land of the North Wind" 2
Tom Paxton ; Anne Hills: "Follow That Road" 2
Al Stewart: "Katherine of Oregon" 2
Jonathan Edwards: "Surrounded" 2
Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt: "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" 2
Angel Band: "Jump Back in the Ditch" 2
Eric Andersen: "Gonna Go Crazy" 2
Tom Rush: "What I Know" 2
Sweet Honey in the Rock: "Idk, But I'm Lol!" 2
Lizzie West and the White Buffalo: "Portrait of An Artist As a Young Woman (Thank You)" 3
Joel Rafael Band with Jackson Browne, Jimmy Lafave ; Arlo Guthrie: "Stepstone" 3
Tom Paxton: "Looking for the Moon" 3
Pete Seeger ; Lorre Wyatt: "Somos El Barco/We Are the Boat" 3
John Stewart: "There Is Love (The Wedding Song)" 3
Jesse Winchester: "Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding" 3
Dick Gaughan: "When I'm Gone" 3
John Gorka: "The Water Is Wide" 3
David Bromberg with Levon Helm: "Bring It with You When You Come" 3
Ramblin' Jack Elliott:"Roving Gambler" 3
Tim Eriksen: "Careless Love" 4
Donovan: "Wild Mountain Thyme" 4
Roger McGuinn with Judy Collins: "John Riley" 4
John Wesley Harding: "Canadee-I-O" 4
Bernice Johnson Reagon with Kim and Reggie Harris: "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep" 4
Pete Seeger: "Going Across the Mountain" 4
Frank Proffitt: "Tom Dooley" 4
Guardabarranco:"Asturias" 4
Lila Downs: "El Quinto Regimiento" 4
Aoife Clancy: "Are You Sleepin', Maggie?" 4
Alec Stone Sweet: "MRS. Poer, or, the Concerto" 5
Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin: "Sow 'Em on the Mountain" 5
Steve Young: "Little Birdie" 5
Mike Seeger and Peggy Seeger: "Cindy" 5
Sharon Katz and the Peace Train: "Sanalwami" 5
Danny Glover and Rev. Robert B. Jones, Sr.: "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning" 5
Kim ; Reggie Harris: "Wade in the Water" 5
John Stewart and Darwin's Army: "Bay of Mexico" 5
Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane ; Vedran Smailovic: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"

UPC: 611587114228
Label: Appleseed Records
Release Date: 10.19.18
Format: CD

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