Word: hellerman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETE SEEGER: I CAN SEE A NEW DAY (Columbia). Everyone seems to take his new songs to Pete. Fred Hellerman, for example, handed him his new, gospel-like prayer for Mississippi (Healing River) just before Seeger flew down there last summer. Pete also sings some traditional ballads (Follow the Drinkin' Gourd) and his own haunting Bells of Rliymney...
Because Hays and Gilbert only sing, the whole responsibility for instrumental background falls on Darling and Fred Hellerman. The extraordinary competence of both, particularly Hellerman on the guitar, is a large factor in the cohesion and warmth of the group. Darling sticks to the long-necked banjo most of the time, but switched to guitar for a solo number where he gave a fairly good rendition of some bottle neck blues...
...album are All My Trials, one of Miss Baez's first songs, and Donna Donna, a rather new one. Musicologists say that All My Trials originated years ago in the South, but it was rediscovered in the Bahamas. Miss Baez sings the lullaby with amazing warmth and tenderness. Fred Hellerman (of the Weavers) backs up her guitar, as he does on five other songs...