One of the oldest songs from The Seeger Sessions is also the most fun. Let’s take a listen to this centuries-old folk song.
Bruce’s 1998 cover of “We Shall Overcome” helps keep this most potent of protest songs alive and fresh for a new generation.
Originally a worker protest song, “Pay Me My Money Down” became a set-closing highlight of merriment on the Seeger Sessions Tour.
Performed only once and buried deep within its album, Bruce’s version of “Shenandoah” is faithful and true to the song’s spirt.
Bruce and Marc Anthony Thompson breathed new life into this civil rights anthem on their 2006 Seeger Sessions Tour.
In 1997, Bruce plucked Sis Cunningham’s bitingly funny dust bowl chronicle from obscurity when he recorded it in his very first Seeger Session. Nine years later, it would become a nightly tour showpiece.
Bruce gives an old spiritual the Dixieland treatment and creates a setlist centerpiece in the process.
“Erie Canal” is a nostalgic callback to a slower-paced world. Bruce’s version captures the wistfulness, pride, and celebration of two workers (one human and one equine) at the sunset of their careers.
One of the all-time great American folk heroes made a nightly appearance on the Seeger Sessions Tour.
Bruce joined a long line of artists in keeping an important African-American spiritual protest song alive and vibrant for generations to come.