• Brilliant performance live at Northwestern University, Chicago
• Includes the entire WFMT-FM Broadcast
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
• Background liners

Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy, live at Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, Evanston, Chicago on 25th October 1956

American author, historian, actor, broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Louis 'Studs' Terkel was the perfect point of communication between poet and people. The Studs Terkel Program was broadcast each weekday between 1952 and 1997 when he interviewed guests as diverse as Martin Luther King, Leonard Bernstein, Mort Sahl, Bob Dylan, Tennessee Williams and Big Bill Broonzy ('our land's most distinguished singer of 'undressed' blues').

Chicago's WFMT were invited to record Big Bill Broonzy's authentic, high octane blues alongside Pete Seeger's observational folksong for Stud Terkel's weekly 'Almanac' broadcast in 1956. Broonzy and Seeger pair up on Lead Belly's Midnight Special to close the show with Terkel declaring: 'Broonzy and Seeger are of disparate cultures, yet share the big common denominator: they are free in song'.

Echoes proudly presents the entire original WFMT-FM broadcast of Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy together in song at Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois in 1956.

Professionally re-mastered original FM broadcast with expansive liners and rare archival photos.

Studs Terkel: The programme was unplanned. We approached the WFMT mike, and let come what did.

TRACKS

Disc One
1. Introduction
2. Midnight Special
3. Backwater Blues
4. The Foolish Frog
5. Green Corn
6. This Train Is Bound For Glory
7. Mrs McGrath
8. Crawdad Song
9. Musical Instruments
10. The Glory Of Love
11. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
12. Goofing Off Suite
13. Willie Mae
14. Bill Bailey
15. Alberta

Disc Two
1. Deep Sea Blue
2. Que Bonita Bandera
3. Aimee McPherson
4. Various Student Songs
5. Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram
6. Black Fly
7. Wimoweh
8. Michael Row The Boat Ashore
9. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
10. Mama I Saw A Boo Boo
11. Ananias
12. A Soldier's Prayer
13. John Henry
14. I'm Gonna Sing Me A Love Song
15. In the Evening When The Sun Goes Down
16. Down By The Riverside