May 3rd will mark 100 years since the birth of Pete Seeger.  He was a musician of incalculable influence, an activist, lyricist, banjo picker, and, most significantly, a unifier of the masses.  Like a Johnny Appleseed of music, Pete Seeger spent his life spreading music to all that would listen.  From "We Shall Overcome" and "If I Had A Hammer," and "The Bells of Rhymney," to "Turn! Turn! Turn!" "Wimoweh," and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," Seeger left an indelible mark on music history that crosses genres, languages, and cultures.  With a career spanning six decades, he became one of America's most influential and celebrated musicians, dedicated not only to presenting the world's songs, but also to civil rights, environmentalism, and the betterment of the species.  His work stands as a testament to this selfless dedication.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has announced an upcoming box set entitled Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, due to arrive on May 3, exactly 100 years after Seeger's birth.  The newly curated collection includes 6 CDs, filled with 137 tracks of studio and live recordings spanning his entire 60-year association with Folkways/Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection was produced by Jeff Place and Robert Santelli, who also produced the acclaimed box sets Woody at 100 and Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection.  The set is filled with classic songs, historic live recordings recorded from the '50s to the '90s, special collaborations, and 20 previously unreleased tracks, all of which were newly remastered by Grammy-winning engineer Pete Reiniger.  From his first recording sessions with Folkways founder Moses Asch to his memorable 1998 performances from If I Had A Hammer, the box set offers a comprehensive look at the music titan's career.  Recordings from Folkways, Asch, Disc, Young People's Music, and Paredon Records are all accounted for.

Whether on his best-known compositions, or his interpretations of folk ballads, children's music, or songs of protest and struggle, Seeger's voice, guitar, and banjo continue to inspire.  But it's not just his solo recordings that feature on The Smithsonian Folkways Collection.  As Seeger was committed to lifting people's voices - often proclaiming that "there's no such thing as a wrong note as long as you're singing" - it's only natural that his friends and collaborators are also highlighted.  Fellow Weaver Lee Hays; bluesmen Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, and Willie Dixon; fellow folk heroes Woody Guthrie, Tom Glazer, David Amram, and Mary Travers; and, of course, his talented relatives such as Mike and Peggy Seeger.

As usual, the packaging will be top-notch, as well.  The set is presented with a large-format, 200-page, 12x12" book with essays, historical commentary, a wealth of photos, extensive liner notes, and a comprehensive discography that, together, contextualize the music and offer insights into Seeger's life, work, and spirit.

Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection will be released on May 3.  You can pre-order the set now from Smithsonian Folkways' website or from the Amazon links below.  Scroll down to find the track listing and to listen to two tracks from the box set -- "We Shall Overcome" and a live version of "Turn! Turn! Turn!"

Pete Seeger, The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2019) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

* denotes previously unreleased track

Disc 1:
1. We Shall Overcome
2. If I Had a Hammer
3. Turn Turn Turn (live)
4. Goodnight, Irene
5. Guantanamera (live in Newport, RI, 1963)
6. The Bells of Rhymney (live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1960)
7. Where Have All the Flowers Gone
8. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (live at Ford Hall Forum, Boston, MA, 1967)
9. Little Boxes
10. Tzena, Tzena, Tzena (live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1960)
11. So Long It's Been Good to Know You
12. Mrs. McGrath (or "My Son Ted")
13. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
14. Banks of Marble
15. Talking Atom
16. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
17. Puttin' on the Style
18. Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
19. Viva la Quince Brigada (live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1960)
20. Living in the Country (live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1960)
21. This Land Is Your Land (live at University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, 1976) *

Track 1 from Broadsides, Songs and Ballads, Smithsonian Folkways LP 2456, 1964 / If I Had a Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998.
Tracks 2 and 13 from Love Songs for Friends and Foes, Smithsonian Folkways LP 2453, 1956 / If I Had a Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998.
Track 3 from If I Had A Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998.
Track 4 from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3, Folkways LP 2322, 1959 / American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40150, 2002.
Track 5 from Headlines and Footnotes, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40111, 1999; from Archive Reel 3233; Recorded July 17, 1963, Newport, R.I.
Tracks 6, 10, 19, and 20 from The Complete Bowdoin College Concert, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40184, 2011; from Archive Reel 1926, Recorded March 13, 1960; Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Track 7 from Rainbow Quest, Folkways LP 2454, 1960 / If I Had a Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998.
Track 8 from Sings and Answers Questions, Folkways LP 5702 / Headlines and Footnotes, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40111, 1999; from Archive Reel 4459, Recorded November 21, 1967, Ford Hall Forum, Boston, Massachusetts.
Tracks 9 and 16 from Broadside, Vol. 2, Folkways LP 5302, 1963 / The Best of Broadside, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40130, 2000.
Track 11 from American Favorite Ballads Vol. 1, Folkways LP 2320, 1957 / American Favorite Ballads Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40150, 2002.
Track 12 from Sing Out! With Pete, Folkways LP 2455, 1961; from Archive Reel 2940.
Tracks 14 and 15 from Gazette, Vol. 1, Folkways LP 2501, 1958 / If I Had a Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998.
Track 17 fromThe Pete Seeger Sampler, Folkways LP 2043, 1954.
Track 18 from Pete Seeger Sings Woody Guthrie, Folkways LP 31002, 1968.
Track 21 previously unreleased; from a lecture at the University of Tulsa, February 3, 1976; Tape Recorded by KWGS Radio.

Disc 2:
1. Union Hoot:
The Scabs Crawl In / We Pity Our Bosses Five / Keep That Line A-Moving / Join the Picket Line
Today *
2. You Can All Join In:
It Takes Everybody to Build This Land / Indian Deer Hunting / Yankee Doodle / Old Chisholm
Trail / The Farmer Is the Man / Erie Canal (Low Bridge) / John Henry
3. Sea Chanties: Boston "Come-All-Ye" (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) / New Bedford Whalers / The Bigler / Johnny Came Down to Hilo
4. Down in the Valley (with Tom Glazer)
5. Buffalo Gals
6. UAW-CIO (with The Union Boys: Tom Glazer, Alan Lomax, Brownie McGhee, Burl Ives, Sonny Terry, Josh White)
7. Dinky Die *
8. Uncle Sam, Won't You Please Come Home to Guam *
9. Moorsoldaten
10. Listen Mr. Bilbo
11. Joe Hill *
12. Roll the Union On
13. OPA Shout (with Bob Claiborne)
14. Talking Union
15. John Riley
16. Banjo Medley:
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark
17. Jam on Jerry's Rocks
18. Lonesome Traveler (with Lee Hays)
19. Goofing-Off Suite: Opening Theme
20. Beethoven, Ludwig v.:Chorale from Symphony No. 9
21. Suliram
22. Babevuya (with The Song Swappers - Mary Travers, Erik Darling, Tom Geraci)
23. Blue Mountain Lake
24. Coal Creek March / Pay Day at Coal Creek / Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line (live at Cranegie Hall, December 27, 1957, with Sonny Terry)
25. Wasn't That a Time (live)
26. Which Side Are You On? (by The Almanac Singers)

Track 1 previously unreleased; from Smithsonian Acetate 008; recorded late 1940s, possibly ca. March 1946.
Track 2 from You Can All Join In, Young People's Records YPR 403, 1948.
Track 3 from Sea Songs, Young People's Records YPR 403, 1948.
Tracks 4 and 5 from America's Favorite Songs, Dis 407, 1946.
Track 6 from Songs For Victory: Music For Political Action, Asch 346, 1944.
Track 7 previously unreleased; from Smithsonian acetate 2983, recorded May 1946.
Track 8 previously unreleased; from Smithsonian acetate 489, recorded May 1945.
Track 9 from Smithsonian acetate 491, recorded 1945.
Tracks 10 and 12 from Roll The Union On, Disc 370 - Matrix D583, 1946.
Track 11 from Smithsonian acetate 488, outtake from Roll The Union On, Disc 370.
Track 13 previously unreleased; from Smithsonian acetate 2076, recorded 1946.
Tracks 14 and 26 from The Original Talking Union, Folkways LP 5285, 1955. / If I Had A Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998.
Tracks 15-17 from Darling Corey, Folkways 2003, 1950 / Darling Corey and Goofing-Off Suite, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40018, 1993.
Track 18 from Lonesome Valley, Folkways 2010, 1951; recorded 1946.
Tracks 19 and 20 from Goofing-Off Suite, Folkways LP 2045, 1955. / Darling Corey and Goofing-Off Suite, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40018, 1993.
Track 21 from The Pete Seeger Sampler, Folkways LP 2043, 1954.
Track 22 from Bantu Choral Folk Songs, Folkways LP 6912, 1955.
Track 23 from Frontier Ballads, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40153, 2006.
Track 24 from Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry Recorded at Their Carnegie Hall Concert, December 27, 1957, Folkways LP 2412, 1958.
Track 25 from With Voices Together We Sing, Folkways LP 2452, 1956 / Headlines and Footnotes, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40111, 1999; possibly recorded at Carnegie Hall.

Disc 3:
1. Foolish Frog (live at New Haven School, Evanston, IL, October 13, 1957) *
2. I Had a Rooster
3. Mr. Rabbit
4. Oh, Worrycare
5. Hard Times in the Mill
6. Casey Jones (the Union Scab) (with The Song Swappers - Mary Travers, Erik Darling, Tom Geraci)
7. The Death of Harry Simms
8. The Preacher and the Slave
9. I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
10. Passing Through
11. Kumbaya
12. Black and White
13. Didn't Old John Cross the Water / Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
14. Midnight Special (live at the Village Gate in 1960, with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon)
15. Que Bonita Bandera
16. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
17. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down (live at the Village Gate in 1960, with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon)
18. Hold On (with Willie Dixon)
19. Down by the Riverside (with Big Bill Broonzy)
20. Wimoweh (live at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1960)
21. Tina Sizwe (We the Brown Nation) (with Robert Haner, Garrett Morris,Guy Carawan, and Ned Wright)

Track 1 previously unreleased; recorded live at New Haven School, Evanston, IL, October 13, 1957.
Tracks 2 and 3 from Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Little Fishes, Folkways LP 7610, 1955; reissued as Smithsonian Folkways CD 45039, 1998.
Track 4 from Folk Songs For Young People, Folkways LP 7532, 1960; reissued as Smithsonian Folkways CD 45024, 2002.
Tracks 5 and 7 from American Industrial Ballads, Folkways LP 5251, 1956; reissued as Smithsonian Folkways CD 40058, 1992.
Track 6 from The Original Talking Union, Folkways LP 5285, 1955 / If I Had A Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998.
Track 8 from Sing Out! Hootenanny, Folkways LP 2513, 1963; recorded between 1950 and 1955.
Track 9 from Songs of Struggle and Protest, 1930-1950, Folkways LP 5233, 1964.
Track 10 from Headlines and Footnotes, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40111, 1999.
Track 11 from Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry Recorded at Their Carnegie Hall Concert, December 27, 1957, Folkways LP 2412, 1958.
Track 12 from Love Songs for Friends and Foes, Smithsonian Folkways LP 2453, 1956 / If I Had a Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998.
Tracks 13 and 15 from With Voices Together We Sing, Folkways LP 2452, 1956.
Track 14 from Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon, Folkways 2450, 1960; recorded 1960.
Track 16 from Gazette, Vol. 1, Folkways LP 2501, 1958.
Track 17 from Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon, Vol. 2, Folkways 2451, 1961; recorded 1960.
Track 18 from Wimoweh and Other Songs of Freedom and Protest, Folkways LP 31018, 1968.
Track 19 from Sing Out! With Pete, Folkways LP 2455, 1961; recorded 1956.
Track 20 from The Complete Bowdoin College Concert, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40184, 2011; from Archive Reel 1926, Recorded March 13, 1960; Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Track 21 from South African Freedom Songs, Folkways EP 601, 1960.

Disc 4:
1. In Tarrytown
2. Oleanna (with The Song Swappers - Mary Travers, Erik Darling, Tom Geraci)
3. Deep Blue Sea
4. Barbara Allen
5. Big Rock Candy Mountain
6. House of the Rising Sun
7. Shenandoah
8. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
9. Bottle Up and Go (with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, William Edward Cook, and Frank Robertson)
10. Hard Travelling
11. Dink's Song
12. When I First Came to This Land
13. The Half Hitch (live at the Indian Neck Folk Festival, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, 1960) *
14. I Never Will Marry (live at Carnegie Hall, April 1959, with Mike Seeger)
15. Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase
16. No More Auction Block
17. Talking Blues
18. St. James Infirmary
19. Strawberry Roan
20. Follow the Drinking Gourd
21. Seneca Canoe Song (Kayowjajineh)
22. The Banks of Champlain
23. My Gallant Black Bess *
24. Nonesuch
25. Battle of New Orleans

Tracks 1 and 20 from Fifty Sail On Newburgh Bay, Folkways 5257, 1976.
Track 2 from Folk Songs of Four Continents, Folkways 6911, 1955.
Track 3 from With Voices Together We Sing, Folkways LP 2452, 1956.
Tracks 4 and 6 from American Favorite Ballads, Folkways LP 2319, 1957 / American Favorite Ballads Vol. 2, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40151, 2003.
Track 5 from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1, Folkways LP 2320, 1957 / American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40150, 2002.
Track 7 from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2, Folkways LP 2321, 1958 / American Favorite Ballads Vol. 1, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40150, 2002.
Tracks 8 and 10 from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 2, Folkways LP 2321, 1958 / American Favorite Ballads Vol. 2, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40151, 2003.
Track 9 from Washboard Band: Country Dance Music, Folkways LP 2201, 1956.
Track 11 from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3, Folkways LP 2322, 1959 / American Favorite Ballads Vol. 2, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40151, 2003.
Track 12 from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 3, Folkways LP 2322, 1959 / American Favorite Ballads Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40152, 2004.
Track 13 previously unreleased; recorded live at the Indian Neck Folk Festival, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, 1960.
Track 14 from Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall, Folkways LP 2512, 1960; recorded April 1959.
Track 15 from Folk Music of the Newport Folk Festival, Vol. 1, Folkways LP 2431, 1961.
Track 16 from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4, Folkways LP 2323, 1959 / American Favorite Ballads Vol. 4, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40153, 2006.
Track 17 from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5, Folkways LP 2445, 1962 / American Favorite Ballads Vol. 4, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40153, 2006.
Track 18 from American Favorite Ballads, Folkways LP 2319, 1957 / American Favorite Ballads Vol. 3, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40152, 2004.
Track 19 from American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40154, 1957; Smithsonian acetate 530.
Tracks 21 and 22 from Champlain Valley Songs, Folkways 5210, 1960; recorded August 25, 1960.
Track 23 previously unreleased; outtake from Champlain Valley Songs, Folkways 5210, 1960; recorded August 25, 1960.
Tracks 24 and 25 from Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes, Folkways 2439, 1959.

Disc 5:
1. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
2. Carol of the Beasts (Burgundian Carol)
3. The Quiz Show
4. Eight-Hour Day
5. The Popular Wobbly
6. Bourgeois Blues
7. Garbage
8. Guardian Beauty Contest *
9. Rambling Boy *
10. Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter
11. Freiheit (Die Thülmann-Kolonne)
12. Battle of Maxton Field
13. What Did You Learn in School Today
14. From Way Up Here
15. To My Old Brown Earth
16. My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song) *
17. Letter to Eve *
18. Ballad of Dr. Dearjohn *
19. My Name is Lisa Kalvelage (live at Ford Hall Forum, Boston, MA, 1967)
20. Don't Ask What a River Is For
21. God Bless the Grass
22. Of Time and Rivers Flowing
23. Well May the World Go
24. Guantanamera (Live at the Poor People's March on Washington, 1968)

Track 1 from Love Songs for Friends and Foes, Smithsonian Folkways LP 2453, 1956 / If I Had a Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998.
Track 2 from Traditional Christmas Carols, Folkways LP 2311, 1967; reissued Smithsonian Folkways CD 40024, 1989.
Track 3 from from Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon, Folkways 2450, 1960; recorded 1960.
Track 4 from American Industrial Ballads, Folkways LP 5251, 1956; reissued as Smithsonian Folkways CD 40058, 1992.
Track 5 from Sing Out! Hootenanny, Folkways LP 2513, 1963; recorded between 1950 and 1955.
Track 6 from Pete Seeger Sings Leadbelly, Folkways LP 31022, 1968.
Tracks 7, 20, 21, and 23 from Banks of Marble and Other Songs, Folkways LP 31040, 1974.
Track 8 previously unreleased; outtake from Gazette, ca. 1958.
Track 9 previously unreleased; outtake from Broadside, Vol. 2, 1963.
Track 10 fromThe Best of Broadside, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40130, 2000.
Track 11 from Wimoweh and Other Songs of Freedom and Protest, Folkways LP 31018, 1968.
Track 12 from Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall, Folkways LP 2512, 1960; recorded April 1959.
Track 13 from Broadside Ballads, Vol. 2, Folkways LP 5302, 1963.
Tracks 14 and 15 from Broadsides, Songs and Ballads, Folkways LP 2456, 1964.
Track 16 previously unreleased; from Smithsonian reel 3375; recorded ca. 1963.
Track 17 previously unreleased; from Smithsonian reel 4871.
Track 18 previously unreleased; from Smithsonian reel 3479.
Track 19 from Sings Questions and Answers, Folkways LP 5702, 1968; recorded live at Ford Hall Forum, Boston, MA, 1967.
Track 22 from Fifty Sail On Newburgh Bay, Folkways 5257, 1976.
Track 24 previously unreleased; recorded live at the Resurrection City Festival at the Poor People's March on Washington, May 29, 1968; from the Ralph Rinzler Collection, RINZ-RR-554.

Disc 6:
1. Quite Early Morning
2. There's Better Things to Do
3. My Father's Mansion's Many Rooms
4. Estadio Chile
5. Why, Oh Why? (live at the Village Gate, September 27, 1965) *
6. How About You?
7. The Sinking of the Reuben James
8. Abiyoyo (live at Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA, December 5, 1980)
9. Cristo Ya Nacio (live at Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA, December 5, 1980)
10. The Water is Wide (live at Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA, December 5, 1980)
11. Greensleeves (live at Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA, December 5, 1980)
12. If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song) (live at Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA, December 5, 1980)
13. We'll All Be A-Doubling (Beacon, NY, 1998, with Tao Rodriguez-Seeger and David Amram)
14. Arrange and Rearrange (Beacon, NY, 1998, with Tao Rodriguez-Seeger and David Amram)
15. English is Cuh-Ray-Zee (English is Crazy) (live at Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, November 11, 1996)
16. A Little of This and That (live at Community Church, New York, January 25, 1994)
17. Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down (live at the Philadelphia Folk Festival-Seeger Family Concert, 1991,  with Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Barbara Seeger, Penny Seeger, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Callum MacColl, Neill MacColl, and Sonya Cohen) *
18. All Mixed Up (live at the University of California, Riverside, ca. 1990s) *
19. Star Spangled Banner / To Anacreon in Heaven (live at the Ralph Rinzler Memorial Festival, Highland Center, New Market, TN, April 8-9, 1995) *
20. One Grain of Sand

Tracks 1, 3, 4 from Banks of Marble and Other Songs, Folkways LP 31040, 1974.
Track 2 from Rainbow Quest, Folkways LP 2454, 1960.
Track 5 previously unreleased; recorded at the Village Gate, September 27, 1965.
Track 6 from What Now People, Vol. 1, Paredon 2001, 1975.
Track 7 from Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry Recorded at Their Carnegie Hall Concert, December 27, 1957, Folkways LP 2412, 1958.
Track 8-12 from Sing-Along Sanders Theater, 1980, Folkways LP 36055; reissued as Smithsonian Folkways CD 40027, 1991; recorded live at Sanders Theater, Cambridge, MA, December 5, 1980.
Tracks 13 and 14 from If I Had a Hammer, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40096, 1998; recorded March 1998, Beacon, N.Y.
Track 15 from Headlines and Footnotes, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40111, 1999; recorded live at Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, November 11, 1996.
Track 16 from Headlines and Footnotes, Smithsonian Folkways CD 40111, 1999; recorded live at Community Church, New York, January 25, 1994.
Track 17 previously unreleased; recorded live at the Philadelphia Folk Festival-Seeger Family Concert, 1991
Track 18 previously unreleased; recorded live at the University of California, Riverside, ca. 1990s.
Track 19 previously unreleased; recorded live at the Ralph Rinzler Memorial Festival, April 8-9, 1995, Highland Center, New Market, TN; CDR-0063.
Track 20 from Equilibrium: Songs of Nature and Humanity, Folkways LP 37305, 1980.