We Shall Overcome by Pete Seeger

We Shall Overcome catches Pete Seeger live at Carnegie Hall in New York on June 8, 1963, and Columbia put it out that same year. By then Seeger had been through the Weavers' hit years and the blacklist of the McCarthy era, and here he stands on the Carnegie stage with his songs of protest, a man back in the thick of it. The title track was the spiritual he had helped turn into the anthem of the civil rights movement, and he said he was the one who changed a word of the traditional lyric to make it easier to sing.

Ed Vulliamy of The Observer later saw the concert as a starting gun for the music and politics of the '60s growing together. AllMusic's Stewart Mason found some songs trite but heard protest folk at its best in the second half, which builds to "Guantanamera". The Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry in 2006, and a 1989 double-CD reissue restored the complete concert.

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