This is another wonderful album from the Smithsonian-Folkways catalogue: Folkway Years, 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics.

Language and Politics - "Denny's (on Thursday)" . Solar flares, scorched skies, and so a hundred news reports about flooding, locusts, the economic impact of sun-spots. You pay no attention to your record collection. You do not realize something is happening there. Those plastic discs, vinyl slabs, streaked and shocked by weather. Two years later, you pull out a TV On The Radio album, lay it on the platter, find a million microscopic changes. Shines gone matte, glitters where nothing glittered before, all these shifted thrills. [ buy on Bandcamp ] Peggy Seeger - "When [...]

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A final gift from Mike and Peggy Seeger.
I don't know the original source for this song. I found it on an album called: Folkway Years, 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Protest . The songs are all sung by Peggy. MP3 File yousendit
Both songs today are from A Fish That's a Song , a Smithsonian Folkways album released in 1990. Drop over and check it out. MP3 File yousendit
Thanks to Leyther who got to hear Sam Cooke again, not Peggy Seeger. Audioblog does that every now and then. This is an old English folk song with a long pedigree. MP3 File
This is another of those songs recorded a multitude of times. I will try to research more when I return. MP3 File
If I even tried to start describing Peggy Seeger, I'd need pages and pages of space so I'll just give a few highlights. She has been a musician for more than fifty years and is still performing at age seventy. Her family's musical pedigree includes her brother Mike and half-brother Pete. She lived in England for 35 years with the singer/songmaker Ewan MacColl and has three children and seven grandchildren. She is an activist who sings about those causes in her songs, and she is amazing. This song is from Folkways' Years 1955-1992 Songs [...]