Various Artists - Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Benefit, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 5-3-2009, Part 3

Here's the third and last volume of Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Benefit concert in 2009.

Like most concerts, the idea was to build up to a big finale. So this last part has some heavy hitters, like Roger McGuinn, Joan Baez, Dave Matthews, and the biggest name of all, Bruce Springsteen. His presence made a lot of sense, because he put out an album in 2006, "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions," consisting entirely of covers of songs associated with Seeger.

I think Seeger is mainly known as someone who mostly performed cover songs, because he liked to sing songs from a wide variety of sources, even some in other languages. But I think that resulted in many people underappreciating his songwriting. He wrote or co-wrote a lot of great songs, including, "Turn! Turn! Turn!," "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "The Bells of Rhymney," "Kisses Sweeter than Wine," and more. In fact, now that I think about it, I should put him on the list of songwriters who deserved the "Covered" treatment. Anyway, if you're not that familiar with his music, hopefully this concert helped with that, even though some songs here weren't written by him ("The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen being one such example). 

As with the previous volumes in this series, the track numbers continue where the last volume left off, in case you want to put all the songs in one folder to listen to this as one big album.  

This album is 54 minutes long.

38 Jacob's Ladder (Joan Baez, Mike & Ruthy Merenda, Scarlett Lee Moore, Jay Unger, Molly Mason & Larry Long)
39 Mary Don't You Weep (Arlo Guthrie, Del McCoury, John Hall, Tony Trischka & Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
40 talk (Arlo Guthrie)
41 Worried Man Blues (Arlo Guthrie, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Jay Unger, Molly Mason & Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
42 Gather 'Round the Stone (Ben Harper, Ellen Harper, Sue Chase & Tom Morello)
43 talk (Peggy Seeger)
44 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Roger McGuinn with Ben Bridwell & Tyler Ramsey)
45 Precious Friend (Emmylou Harris, Arlo Guthrie, Tony Trischka & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
46 talk (Dave Matthews)
47 Rye Whiskey (Dave Matthews)
48 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
49 The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen with Tom Morello)
50 This Land Is Your Land (Pete Seeger & Everyone)
51 Happy Birthday (Joan Baez & Everyone)
52 Well May the World Go (Everyone)
53 talk (Seeger Family)
54 Goodnight Irene (Pete Seeger & Everyone)

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The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. From right to left in the front row: Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Tom Morello, and Dave Matthews.