Mike Seeger

Mike Seeger, 1964
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About the artist

Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933 – August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist. At 25, along with John Cohen and Tom Paley, he became a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. His famous musical family includes sister Peggy Seeger and half-brother Pete Seeger. He was exposed to traditional music through his mother Ruth Crawford-Seeger and father Charles Seeger, who worked with musicologists John and Alan Lomax. He was an accomplished musician; a distinctive singer who played autoharp

Top songs

  1. Cripple Creek
  2. John Hardy
  3. Bonaparte's Retreat
  4. Lost Gander
  5. Holston Valley Breakdown
  6. Cotton Mill Colic
  7. The New Market Wreck
  8. Breaking Up Ice in the Allegheny
  9. Worried Blues
  10. Little Birdie
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  1. Devil's Dream
  2. Josh Thomas's Roustabout
  3. Flop Eared Mule
  4. Sad and Lonesome Day
  5. Ground Hog
  6. Man Of Constant Sorrow
  7. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
  8. Freight Train
  9. Soon in the Morning Babe
  10. Oh My Little Darling
  11. Richmond Cotillion
  12. Wildwood Flower
  13. Yonder She Comes
  14. The Baldheaded End Of A Broom
  15. Around the World
  16. Jim Crack Corn
  17. Wabash Blues
  18. Coo Coo Bird
  19. Black Jack Davey
  20. Whoopin' Up Cattle
  21. The Sailor and the Soldier
  22. Little Rabbit, Where's Your Mammy?
  23. Needlecase
  24. Who's That Tapping At The Window?
  25. Got No Silver Nor Gold Blues
  26. Down South Blues
  27. Darling Cora
  28. Bright Sunny South
  29. Lord Thomas
  30. I'm Head Over Heels in Love
  31. Fishing Blues
  32. We're Up Against It Now
  33. Frankie
  34. The Last of Callahan
  35. Handsome Molly
  36. Blow the Horn, Blow
  37. Spanish Fandango
  38. Roll On John
  39. Come All You Coal Miners
  40. Battle in the Horseshoe
  41. Lady Gay
  42. Sourwood Mountain
  43. Did You Ever See the Devil, Uncle Joe?
  44. Come My Little Pink
  45. Rollin' On
  46. The Story Of The Mighty Mississippi
  47. Will The Weaver
  48. When Sorrows Encompass Me Round
  49. American Spanish Fandango
  50. Snake Baked A Hoe Cake
  51. Johnson Jinkson
  52. Johnson City Blues
  53. Goin' Down There
  54. That's What The Old Bachelor's Made Out Of
  55. John Henry
  56. Birmingham Tickle
  57. The Raftsman's Song
  58. Fisherman's Luck
  59. The Golden Willow Tree
  60. Shouting in Jerusalem
  61. Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender (Child No. 73)
  62. Guitar Rag
  63. Spoonful
  64. Old Man
  65. Early in the Spring
  66. Calico
  67. Snake Baked A Hoecake
  68. Old Chisholm Trail
  69. Sail Away Ladies
  70. Weary Lonesome Blues
  71. Tennessee Dog
  72. White Oak Mountain
  73. Kenny Wagner's Surrender
  74. Shakin the Pines in the Holler
  75. O Death
  76. Darling Cora (Darling Corey)
  77. I'm Crazy Over You
  78. Factory Girl
  79. California Cotillion
  80. Harlan County Blues
  81. Such A Getting Upstairs
  82. Leaning on the Everlasting Arm
  83. Smoketown Strut
  84. Hello Stranger
  85. Boatman
  86. Young Johnnie
  87. Last Night When My Willie Come Home
  88. Quill Ditty
  89. Granddad Jim's Waltz
  90. After All Has Been Said and Done

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