I bought this album on Tuesday and I absolutely love it. It is great flowing album which you can listen to from track 1-13 over and over. Basically the album is to pay hommage to folk music but Springsteen focuses on songs that were affiliated with Folk Legend Pete Seeger. This album is not for everyone, if you don't like folk music or don't have an open mind about various types of music you will hate it. With that said if you want an introduction into the folk world this is the album to do it.

There is a lot of variety on the album from various stages of early American music. In a lot of ways it is a history lesson. That takes you from death of Jesse James to the Homestead Strike to the civil rights marches.

Many of the songs are the first protest songs such as Mrs. Grath a war protest song turned into the battle cry of Michael Collin's IRA, We Shall Overcome a multi purpose protest song used by Dr. King and civil rights advocates. There are early African American songs on the album, such as O Mary Don't you Weep, and Jacob's ladder.

I recommend the CD but as I said it isn't for everyone.

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