Peggy Seeger Reimagined

It’s bizarre enough that a 77-year-old grandmother is picking up radio airplay and making her mark in clubs singing on an uncompromising dance record that hurtles at you in a blazing barrage of offbeats, loops and samples. It’s positively surreal when you discover the singer is Peggy Seeger, the American who became one of the seminal figures of the British folk revival and widely regarded as something of a firebrand purist where folk music is concerned.

The track, 'First Time Ever' (above) is the lead single from Folksploitation, a daring album that pitches Seeger’s still-potent voice with the electronic wizardry of a slightly mysterious DJ/producer operating under the name Broadcaster. MORE HERE