Various - Appleseed's 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches (CD)

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

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Pete Seeger: Oh Sacred World
2. Bruce Springsteen:If I Had a Hammer
3. Tom Morello: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
4. Tim Robbins: Well May the World Go
5. Joan Baez: I Wish the Wars Were All Over
6. Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Ani Difranco, Steve Earle ; Anne Hills: Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)
7. Tom Russell: Across the Border
8. Johnny Clegg: Love in the Time of Gaza
9. John Wesley Harding (With Corporal Quorum): Scared of Guns (Amended)
10. Sweet Honey in the Rock: Second Line Blues
11. Anne Hills: Needle of Death
12. Natalie Merchant and 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: 2

1. Jesse Winchester: Get It Right One Day
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 and 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)
17. Jesse Winchester: Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding
18. Dick Gaughan: When I'm Gone

Disc: 3

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
6. Roger McGuinn with Judy Collins: John Riley
7. John Wesley Harding: Canadee-I-O
8. Bernice Johnson Reagon with Kim and 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 and Kate Brislin: Sow 'Em on the Mountain
16. Steve Young: Little Birdie
17. Mike Seeger and Peggy Seeger: Cindy
18. Sharon Katz and the Peace Train: Sanalwami
19. Danny Glover and Rev. Robert B. Jones, Sr.: Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
20. Kim ; Reggie Harris: Wade in the Water
21. John Stewart and Darwin's Army: Bay of Mexico
22. Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane ; Vedran Smailovic: Where Have All the Flowers Gone