BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN OFFERS FANS THREE NEW SONGS, FOUR NEW CONCERT VIDEOS, EXPANDED DOCUMENTARY AND UNSEEN PHOTOS FOR 'WE SHALL OVERCOME: THE SEEGER SESSIONS - AMERICAN LAND EDITION,' OCT. 3 ON COLUMBIA RECORDS
SPECIAL CD/DVD SET INCLUDES NEW BONUS TRACKS, LIVE CONCERT VIDEOS, MUSIC VIDEOS, EXPANDED DOCUMENTARY AND EXPANDED BOOKLET
Bruce Springsteen will offer fans
five additional songs, exclusive live footage, music videos and previously
unseen photos for the upcoming release of 'We Shall Overcome: The Seeger
Sessions - American Land Edition.' Columbia Records will release the
enhanced album October 3.
'We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - American Land Edition' will
include a CD, DVD and 28-page booklet in a striking package. New features
and content include:
- New songs "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such
Times And Live," "Bring 'Em Home" and "American
Land."
- "Buffalo Gals" and "How Can I
Keep From Singing" on CD for the first time. (They were
previously only available as bonus audio on the DVD side of the
DualDisc release.)
- An extended, 40-minute cut of the
behind-the-scenes film, including footage of Springsteen with the
Seeger Sessions Band recording "Jacob's Ladder," "Froggie
Went A Courtin'" and others and a complete rendition of "Erie
Canal."
- Music videos of "American Land" and
"Pay Me My Money Down" by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker
Thom Zimny.
- Concert footage of Springsteen with the Seeger
Sessions Band performing "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times
And Live" (from Los Angeles, CA, June 5, 2006) and "Bring
'Em Home" (from Concord, CA, June 6, 2006).
- Rare photos of Bruce Springsteen taken by Danny
Clinch.
- Additional lyrics and fascinating complete
track notes by distinguished music scholar Dave Marsh.
Springsteen wrote "American Land"
and performed it in New York and New Jersey. The song was inspired by
"He Lies in the American Land," a poem by a Slovakian immigrant steelworker
that Pete Seeger later translated and set to music.
About "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times," Bruce Springsteen said,
"This song was written by Blind Alfred Reed and recorded a month after
the crash of '29 that heralded the Great Depression. I first heard it
on Ry Cooder's self-titled debut album (1970). To his arrangement we
owe a debt. I kept the 'doctor' first verse by Reed then wrote three
others with a mind to the great trials the people of New Orleans have
faced this year."
Penned by Pete Seeger during the Vietnam War, "Bring 'Em Home" quickly
acquired anthemic power in the anti-war movement. Springsteen first
recorded the song in January 2006 and added a final lead vocal during
his European tour, at a studio in Oslo, Norway. His poignant rendition,
performed frequently on the Seeger Sessions tour, adds several new verses
and connects the song to a much earlier topical song, "When Johnny Comes
Marching Home." "Bring 'Em Home" was written in 1965 and originally
released on Seeger's 1971 Columbia album, 'Young vs. Old.'
'We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - American Land Edition' will
be available on a track-by-track basis from iTunes, allowing fans that
have already purchased 'We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions' DualDisc
to download the additional tracks.
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