Billboard — The folk icon’s first record since 2003 is less an album than the audio version of whiling away an afternoon at Seeger’s upstate cabin. It’s a pleasingly indulgent collection of songs, stories and detours that will be something of a treasure for longtime fans and packs at least a dozen treats for relative newbies. (There are 32 in all, 26 previously unrecorded, including stories, introductions and at least one “Nameless Banjo Riff.”) Seeger grudgingly nods to his own mortality on tracks like the extremely sweet “Little Fat Baby,” a growin’-up narrative with lines like, “Some day, we’ll be saying so long/ Some day, it’ll be time for me to move on.” Best of all is “False From True,” a ragtime throwback that finds Seeger settling into a sweetly melancholy tale of nostalgia, hope and “separating false from true.”
• Pete Seeger – Little Fat Baby.mp3

Jeff Vrabel is a humor columnist for the GateHouse news service, editor-in-chief of Hilton Head Monthly magazine and a music writer whose work has appeared in Paste, RollingStone.com, Billboard, Playboy, All About Jazz, No Depression, the Chicago Sun-Times, Backstreets, brucespringsteen.net and several furious Neil Diamond fan message boards. 


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what is the name of the tune that Pete performed with the audience during the Sept. 29th David Letterman show?
I’ve got the tune in my head but want all the words. Very hard to find words without the tune’s name. Is it on the new Pete Seeger 89 album???
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