Bruce Springsteen grabó un puñado de canciones folk americanas en enero de 2006, durante la tercera sesión de grabaciones con la Seeger Sessions Band. La mayoría de esas canciones se publicaron en el álbum We Shall Overcome – The Seeger Sessions ese mismo año, aunque no todas.
Appleseed Recordings rescata ahora una de las grabaciones de Bruce Springsteen con la Seeger Sessions Band que quedaron inéditas, en concreto la versión de «If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)» (escrita por Seeger), en un nuevo álbum recopilatorio titulado Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches, con motivo del 21 aniversario del sello discográfico. Este triple CD se publicará el 19 de octubre, y también incluirá la versión de Springsteen de «We Shall Overcome» junto a otras canciones a cargo de Pete Seeger, Tom Morello, TIm Robbins, Joan Baez, Billy Bragg, Jackson Browne y muchos más.
Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches
DISC ONE – “Let the Truth Be Told”
1. Pete Seeger – Oh Sacred World
2. Bruce Springsteen – If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) (exclusive new song)
3. Tom Morello – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (exclusive new song)
4. Tim Robbins – Well May the World Go (exclusive new song)
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 (exclusive new song)
8. Johnny Clegg – Love in the Time of Gaza
9. John Wesley Harding (w/ Corporal Quorum) – Scared of Guns (Amended) (exclusive new song)
10. Sweet Honey in the Rock – Second Line Blues
11. Anne Hills – Needle of Death (exclusive new song)
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 TWO – “Wisdom Keepers”
1. Jesse Winchester – Get It Right One Day (exclusive new song)
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) (exclusive new song)
17. Jesse Winchester – Sham-a-Ling-Dong-Ding
18. Dick Gaughan – When I’m Gone
DISC THREE – “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 (exclusive new song)
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