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Roots and Branches: Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary
 

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APPLESEED RECORDINGS CELEBRATES 21st ANNIVERSARY WITH HISTORIC TRIPLE ALBUM SET, OUT OCTOBER 19th, 2018. COLLECTION FEATURES NEW MUSIC FROM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, TOM MORELLO, DONOVAN, TIM ROBBINS, JOHN WESLEY HARDING, PLUS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE APPLESEED ARCHIVES


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In honor of 21 years at the forefront of the folk protest tradition, Appleseed Recordings will release a powerhouse triple album set exploring two decades of their most revolutionary work, featuring new recordings from Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Donovan, Tim Robbins, John Wesley Harding, Tom Russell + more. Across 57 tracks total, each disc of “Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches” serves as a beacon of the label’s longstanding devotion to three philosophies: truth telling, preserving our wisdom keepers both past and present, and keeping the legacy of roots music alive for future generations.

Although steeped in the history of traditional folk, roots, and world music, the themes on “Roots and Branches” ring especially true in our present moment. Tom Russell offers a searing new take on Bruce Springsteen’s “Across the Border,” recorded firsthand on the New Mexico/Mexico line; social worker Anne Hills takes a harrowing look into the heroin epidemic on “Needle of Death”; Tom Morello reimagines AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds” to name check “US Foreign Policy” and “fake news”; and John Wesley Harding’s own 12 year-old daughter appears on “Scared of Guns” to recite NRA donation figures, updating the original with crunchy guitars and the voice of a new generation. Additional contributors to this collection include Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Joan Baez, Al Stewart, Billy Bragg, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and more. (See full track list at right.)

“The CDs in this 21st anniversary set have been loosely organized by separate, but frequently overlapping, themes,” says Appleseed founder Jim Musselman. “They match my three goals in forming Appleseed Recordings – to provide an outlet for songs of social justice, both current and past; to release newly written songs of personal experience and emotion in modern times; and to keep alive the centuries of still-vital traditional songs from our country’s and our world’s history. To learn how to move forward, we can never forget the lessons, or songs, of the past.”

We are proud that this collection includes the sixth exclusive song that Bruce Springsteen has released on the label. "Roots and Branches" also features the last recorded songs (previously unreleased) by Jesse Winchester and John Stewart.

For more info contact Jim Musselman via our website or call 610-701-5755.

DISC ONE – Let the Truth Be Told
  1. Pete Seeger – Oh Sacred World
  2. Bruce Springsteen – If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)
  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 with Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle and 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 (w/ Corporal Quorum) – Scared of Guns (Amended)
  10. Sweet Honey in the Rock – Second Line Blues
  11. Anne Hills – Needle of Death
  12. Natalie Merchant & 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 TWO – “Wisdom Keepers
  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 & 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 & the White Buffalo – Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman (Thank You)
  13. Joel Rafael Band with Jackson Browne, Jimmy LaFave and Arlo Guthrie – Stepstone
  14. Tom Paxton – Looking for the Moon
  15. Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt with Emmylou Harris – Somos El Barco/We Are the Boat
  16. John Stewart – There is Love (Wedding Song)
  17. Jesse Winchester – Sham-a-Ling-Dong-Ding
  18. Dick Gaughan – When I’m Gone
DISC THREE – Keeping the Songs Alive
  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 & 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 & the Peace Train – Sanalwami
  19. Danny Glover and Rev. Robert B. Jones, Sr. – Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
  20. Kim and Reggie Harris – Wade in the Water
  21. John Stewart & Darwin’s Army – Bay of Mexico
  22. Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane and Vedran Smailovic – Where Have All the Flowers Gone
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