Everything Changes (Peggy Seeger album)

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Everything Changes
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Studio album by Peggy Seeger
Released September 1, 2014 (2014-09-01)
Recorded Yellow Fish Studios, Voom Studios
Label Signet Music
Producer Calum MacColl
Peggy Seeger chronology
Bring Me Home
(2008)
Everything Changes
(2014)

Everything Changes is a 2014 album by American folk singer Peggy Seeger. It is Peggy's 22nd album and was released on September 1, 2014 by Signet Music.

Peggy Seeger American folk singer

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Contents

Recording

Although Seeger was 79 when it was made, it is the first solo album which Seeger has recorded with a band (rather than solo or as a duo). Musicians included Calum and Neil MacColl, her sons with her late husband Ewan MacColl. [1] [2] One track, "Swim To The Star", was commissioned by the BBC for a program about the sinking of the Titanic . [2]

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Critical reaction

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [3]
Review scores
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Metacritic rates it 79/100 from 5 reviews. [3] Robin Denislow in The Guardian gave it 5/5, calling it "a revelation". [1] The Guardian also rated it number 35 in their best albums of 2014. [7] The Financial Times gave it 4/5, praising the "impeccable musical backing". [4] The Daily Telegraph praised it for dealing with difficult subjects and "keeping up with the times", scoring it 3/5. [5] Music OHM gave it 5 stars. [6]

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Seeger and Calum MacColl won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Original Song of the Year in 2015 for "Swim To The Star".

BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards award

The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards celebrate outstanding achievement during the previous year within the field of folk music, with the aim of raising the profile of folk and acoustic music. The awards have been given annually since 2000 by British radio station BBC Radio 2.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Swim to the Star"Calum MacColl, Peggy Seeger3:04
2."Go to Sleep"Calum MacColl, Neill MacColl3:31
3."Nero's Children"Peggy Seeger2:55
4."We Watch You Slip Away" Kate St. John, Peggy Seeger3:11
5."Flowers by the Roadside"Calum MacColl, Peggy Seeger3:24
6."When Fairy Stories End"Peggy Seeger2:55
7."Do You believe in Me?"Lou Berryman, Peter Berryman2:46
8."Over the Mountain to You"Peggy Seeger2:51
9."You Don't Know How Lucky You Are"Peggy Seeger3:02
10."Miss Heroin"Rutthy Taubb4:05
11."Everything Changes"Peggy Seeger4:06

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