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Hard, Ain’t It Hard: The Weavers Greatest Songs | The Weavers

Featuring one half of The Almanac Singers, Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, The Weavers built on this legacy and quickly found themselves the subjects of surveillance by the FBI as the McCarthy witch hunts took hold across the US. However, the songs’ early 50s folk-pop ambience is hard to square with The Weavers’ history as political…

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Rev-Ola | CR REV 202
Reviewed by Grahame Bent
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