Peggy Seeger
Singer, Songwriter
Folk, Protest
A SELECTION OF PEGGY'S WORK
CDS THE FOLKWAYS YEARS (Folkways SF 40048, 1992) A comprehensive look at forty years of singing traditional songs and her own songs. Compiled in 1992 by Smithsonian-Folkways.
ALMOST COMMERCIALLY VIABLE (Fellside FECD 130, 1998; and Sliced Bread SB7 1204, 2000) Love songs (lots) and political songs (a few). Made originally in 1992 in collaboration with Irene Scott.
AN ODD COLLECTION (Rounder 4031, 1996) Songs written by Peggy: love, loss, violence against women, hormones, housework, unions, smoking, abortion, ecology, old friends, weddings, nuclear pollution, women in the pulpit, bodily dimensions and the female vote.... etc.
PERIOD PIECES (Tradition TCD 1078) A compiler album of women's songs from 1963 to 1994. Songs about violence, marriage, children, unions, the penis, love, rape, birth control, war and peace, women in the pulpit, women at work, woman in a wheelchair, ...
LOVE WILL LINGER ON (Appleseed APR 1039) Romantic love songs with romantic accompaniments. Breaking new ground here in instrumentation and composition.
BOOKS THE PEGGY SEEGER SONGBOOK - WARTS AND ALL: The definitive collection of Peggy's songs with extensive notes on songmaking. A must for anyone interested in feminism, songwriting, or Peggy's work. 364 pages. (Music Sales, New York 1998)
THE ESSENTIAL EWAN MACCOLL SONGBOOK The definitive collection of Ewan's songs. with media history, biog and Peggy's tribute to and assessment of him as a songwriter. 420 pages. (Music Sales, New York 2001)