ブルース・スプリングスティーンやトム・モレロらがカバーした未発表曲を集めたコンピレーション・アルバム『Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots And Branches』が10月19日にリリースされることが明らかになった。

同アルバムは、1997年に設立された米フォーク・ミュージック・レーベル、Appleseed Recordingsの設立21周年を記念したもの。

スプリングスティーンはレーベルの所属アーティストだったピート・シーガーが広めた曲“We Shall Overcome（勝利を我等に）”とピート・シーガーとリー・ヘイズによる“If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)（天使のハンマー）”を、トム・モレロはAC/DCの“Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”とウディ・ガスリーの“This Land is Your Land”をそれぞれカバーしている。

現在、同アルバムからジェシ・ウィンチェスターの“Get It Right One Day”、 John Wesley HardingとCorporal Quorumによる“Scared of Guns (Amended)”、そしてトム・ラッセルの“Across The Border”の3曲の音源が公開されている。



3枚組でリリースされるに同アルバムには、全57曲が収録される予定だ。

トラックリストは以下。

＜DiSC 1：『Let the Truth Be Told』＞
1. Pete Seeger – Oh Sacred World
2. Bruce Springsteen – If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)
3. Tom Morello – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
4. Tim Robbins – Well May the World Go
5. Joan Baez – I Wish the Wars Were All Over
6. Pete Seeger with Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle and 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 (w/ Corporal Quorum) – Scared of Guns (Amended)
10. Sweet Honey in the Rock – Second Line Blues
11. Anne Hills – Needle of Death
12. Natalie Merchant & 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：『Wisdom Keepers』＞
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 & 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 & the White Buffalo – Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman (Thank You)
13. Joel Rafael Band with Jackson Browne, Jimmy LaFave and Arlo Guthrie – Stepstone
14. Tom Paxton – Looking for the Moon
15. Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt with Emmylou Harris – Somos El Barco/We Are the Boat
16. John Stewart – There is Love (Wedding Song)
17. Jesse Winchester – Sham-a-Ling-Dong-Ding
18. Dick Gaughan – When I’m Gone

＜Disc 3：『Keeping the Songs Alive』＞
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 & 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 & the Peace Train – Sanalwami
19. Danny Glover and Rev. Robert B. Jones, Sr. – Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
20. Kim and Reggie Harris – Wade in the Water
21. John Stewart & Darwin’s Army – Bay of Mexico
22. Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane and Vedran Smailovic – Where Have All the Flowers Gone