180g Vinyl 2LP Reissue of The Boss' First Album of Entirely Non-Original Material!

2006's Grammy Award-winning We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Bruce Springsteen's first album of entirely non-original material, features The Boss' personal interpretations of thirteen traditional songs, all of them associated with the legendary guiding light of American folk music, Pete Seeger, for whom the record is named.

Speaking of the origins of the music, Springsteen said, "So much of my writing, particularly when I write acoustically, comes straight out of the folk tradition. Making this album was creatively liberating because I have a love of all those different roots sounds...they can conjure up a world with just a few notes and a few words." It's a loose, exuberant throwdown of folk songs and traditionals that can only be explained with commas: rock, folk, Dixieland, ragtime, gospel, French Quarter, honky-tonk, blues – in a word, American music. "Not music being written," Springsteen notes, "but music being made."

The musicians here include: Springsteen (guitar, harmonica, B3 organ and percussion), Sam Bardfeld (violin), Art Baron (tuba), Frank Bruno (guitar), Jeremy Chatzy (upright bass), Mark Clifford (banjo), Larry Eagle (drums and percussion), Charles Giordano (B3 organ, piano and accordion), Ed Manion (saxophone), Mark Pender (trumpet), Richie 'La Bamba' Rosenberg (trombone) and Soozie Tyrell (violin). Lisa Lowell, Patti Scialfa, Springsteen, Pender, Tyrell, and Rosenberg contribute backing vocals.