We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

album by Springsteen

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We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is an album by Bruce Springsteen released in 2006. It features traditional American folk songs and songs associated with Pete Seeger. The album was recorded over a decade with a folk-roots band and a horn section.1

The song "We Shall Overcome" itself has deep roots in American folk and gospel music, with origins tracing back to the music of enslaved people and a gospel song by Charles Albert Tindley. Pete Seeger played a significant role in popularizing the song, changing "will" to "shall" and performing it for Martin Luther King Jr.. The song became an anthem of the American civil rights movement.23

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We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006) took a turn unanticipated by even the closest Springsteen observers. He made the recording over a period of 10 years with a folk-roots band and a horn section. It features traditional American folk songs (“Oh, Mary, Don’t You…
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