Music Recommendation: Pete Seeger — “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”

BRUCE’S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC

Song: “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”

Artist: Pete Seeger

Artist Location: Sold by Paul Winter of Litchfield, Connecticut

Info: “Paul Winter is a seven-time Grammy-winning saxophonist, whose sextet was the first jazz group to perform at the White House in 1962. His second group, the Paul Winter Consort, interweaves sounds from the natural world with classical and ethnic traditions, and the spontaneous spirit of jazz. Their annual Winter Solstice Celebrations and Earth Mass are among the most popular events in New York.”

“In June of 1982, Pete came to Cornwall, in the Litchfield Hills of northwest Connecticut, to take part in our Living Music Festival, along with the Consort, vocalist Susan Osborn, and the Brazilian samba band Pe de Boi. I had engaged filmmaker Phil Garvin to capture the event with a three-camera crew, but the tapes then gathered dust for 33 years. After Pete’s passing [in 2014], I located Phil in Denver, and luckily he still had the original reels, which were then sent to a videotape restoration facility in Kentucky, and finally to a studio in Connecticut that made the conversation to High Definition digital.”

“This is vintage Pete, in the kind of grass-roots context where he felt at home. And it is vintage Consort as well, with the players that made the album Common Ground. It includes the only footage we know of Susan Osborn singing ‘Lay Down Your Burden,’ a song we have only recently brought back into the Consort’s repertoire.”

“Grammy-winning PETE is an album by American legend Pete Seeger, accompanied by a host of friends, and produced by Paul Winter. Originally released in 1997, the album was remastered and re-released in 2014.”

“Playing masterful banjo and 12-string guitar, Pete sings with gusto and soul. True to the spirit of his life-long dedication to community participation, Pete Seeger says of his album PETE: ‘What I want to do with this album is give people something that encourages the creative process and gets people out of the boxesthey’ve been put in.’”

Price: $1 (USD) for song; $8.99 (USD) for

Genre: Folk

Links:

Paul Winter on Bandcamp

https://paulwinter.bandcamp.com

PETE

https://paulwinter.bandcamp.com/album/pete

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