Peggy Seeger - A Song For You & Me [Prestige Folk]

Peggy Seeger - A Song For You And Me - Prestige International 13058 - Original Prestige Pressing, Orange Label, Mono

Peggy Seeger - Vocals, Guitar, Banjo & Autoharp

Recorded - [dates unknown?, Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ]

Produced by Kenneth S Goldstein
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder [Van Gelder in Deadwax]
Cover/Design - Don Schlitten

Released - 1963?

Today I'll be definitively concluding my ongoing series on Prestige's forgotten early 60s ethnic folk recordings: the Prestige International 13000 and Near East 4500 series with a final gem - Peggy Seeger's A Song for You and Me! See overleaf for a bunch of surplus Prestige International sides that I burned off earlier- onwards and upwards back to Jazz!

I'm going a bit full circle here - I first became fascinated with Prestige's folk and world sides when I acquired the 1965 Prestige compilation Folk Songs with The Seegers last year. Acquiring this side was only ever for its catalog number (jazz collector OCD: must acquire everything in the 7300 series!) - but it's since become the Prestige Folk side that I listen to most regularly.

This particular recording is a long forgotten and tremendously obscure Peggy Seeger LP- recorded by Rudy Van Gelder and featuring Peggy solo, accompanied by her own instrumentation. As I once said before - this is less folk music, than timeless American root music.