We Shall Overcome

by Pete Seeger

We Shall Overcome cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:55
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Captured at a massively attended Carnegie Hall concert in June 1963, this recording stands as a primary historical document of the American civil rights movement. The folk veteran leads the audience in passionate, communal singalongs of essential protest anthems, most notably the definitive, movement-galvanizing rendition of the title track. The album crucially disseminated these songs to a wider, national audience during a period of intense sociopolitical upheaval.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, political, protest, conscious, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. If You Miss Me At The Back Of The Bus (2:09)
  2. Keep Your Eyes On The Prize (2:00)
  3. I Ain't Scared Of Your Jail (1:33)
  4. Oh Freedom! (3:12)
  5. That's What I Learned In School (1:40)
  6. Little Boxes (1:52)
  7. Who Killed Norma Jean? (2:21)
  8. Who Killed Davey Moore? (2:20)
  9. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (5:35)
  10. Mail Myself To You (1:11)
  11. Guantanamera (4:37)
  12. Tshotsholosa (1:27)
  13. We Shall Overcome (5:58)

Credits

  • Pete Seeger - primary artist, adapted by, written-by
  • Hector Angulo - adapted by
  • Jos茅 Mart铆 - written-by
  • Carver Neblett - written-by
  • Lester Cobb - written-by
  • Frank Hamilton - written-by
  • Guy Carawan - written-by
  • Zilphia Horton - written-by

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