2018 three CD release. For more than two decades the independent, idealistic Appleseed Recordings label has been releasing new and archival CDs of folk/roots-oriented music by many of the genre's greatest performers. Appleseed's 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches, a deluxe three-CD, 57-track set, combines highlights from past releases by a Who's Who of musical giants including Pete Seeger, Al Stewart, Donovan, Tom Rush, Sweet Honey in the Rock, David Bromberg, Jonathan Edwards, Tom Paxton, and Jesse Winchester with nine new/previously unreleased songs by high-profile friends of the label including Bruce Springsteen, rap/metal guitarist/activist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Prophets of Rage), Americana titan Tom Russell, actor/musician/social justice advocate Tim Robbins and singer/songwriter/ novelist John Wesley Harding. More than three hours of music are packaged in a digipack that includes a deluxe full-color 32-page booklet with notes about each song and artist and a history of the Appleseed label. The new/previously unreleased/exclusive tracks: On disc 1: Bruce Springsteen: "If I Had a Hammer" / Tom Morello: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" / Tim Robbins: "Well May the World Go" / Tom Russell: "Across the Border" / John Wesley Harding (with Corporal Quorum): "Scared of Guns (Amended)" / Anne Hills: "Needle of Death" On disc 2: Jesse Winchester: "Get It Right One Day" / John Stewart: "There is Love (The Wedding Song)" On disc 3: Donovan: "Wild Mountain Thyme"
6 Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Ani Difranco, Steve Earle & 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 (With Corporal Quorum): "Scared of Guns (Amended)"
10 Sweet Honey in the Rock: "Second Line Blues"
11 Anne Hills: "Needle of Death"
12 Natalie Merchant and 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 2 -
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 and 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 and the White Buffalo: "Portrait of An Artist As a Young Woman (Thank You)"
13 Joel Rafael Band with Jackson Browne, Jimmy Lafave & Arlo Guthrie: "Stepstone"
14 Tom Paxton: "Looking for the Moon"
15 Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt: "Somos El Barco/We Are the Boat"
16 John Stewart: "There Is Love (The Wedding Song)"
17 Jesse Winchester: "Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding"
18 Dick Gaughan: "When I'm Gone"
- Disc 3 -
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 and 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 and the Peace Train: "Sanalwami"
19 Danny Glover and Rev. Robert B. Jones, Sr.: "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning"
20 Kim & Reggie Harris: "Wade in the Water"
21 John Stewart and Darwin's Army: "Bay of Mexico"
22 Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane & Vedran Smailovic: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
2018 three CD release. For more than two decades the independent, idealistic Appleseed Recordings label has been releasing new and archival CDs of folk/roots-oriented music by many of the genre's greatest performers. Appleseed's 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches, a deluxe three-CD, 57-track set, combines highlights from past releases by a Who's Who of musical giants including Pete Seeger, Al Stewart, Donovan, Tom Rush, Sweet Honey in the Rock, David Bromberg, Jonathan Edwards, Tom Paxton, and Jesse Winchester with nine new/previously unreleased songs by high-profile friends of the label including Bruce Springsteen, rap/metal guitarist/activist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Prophets of Rage), Americana titan Tom Russell, actor/musician/social justice advocate Tim Robbins and singer/songwriter/ novelist John Wesley Harding. More than three hours of music are packaged in a digipack that includes a deluxe full-color 32-page booklet with notes about each song and artist and a history of the Appleseed label. The new/previously unreleased/exclusive tracks: On disc 1: Bruce Springsteen: "If I Had a Hammer" / Tom Morello: "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" / Tim Robbins: "Well May the World Go" / Tom Russell: "Across the Border" / John Wesley Harding (with Corporal Quorum): "Scared of Guns (Amended)" / Anne Hills: "Needle of Death" On disc 2: Jesse Winchester: "Get It Right One Day" / John Stewart: "There is Love (The Wedding Song)" On disc 3: Donovan: "Wild Mountain Thyme"
