(But again, I'm probably in the minority here.) It does mean that folks like me (who can read music) who love exploring unfamiliar songs need to turn to Spotify, YouTube, the CDs by Patterson and Blood featuring basic melodies, or the public library to learn the songs, but that means turning away from the pleasures of diving into the book. (You can see part of a sample page here.) This is an eminently reasonable decision - only a small percentage of the population can actually read music, and if you're trying to choose songs to sing, you're probably going to gravitate to familiar melodies for which you don't need the music.
The basic structure of both books is to include lyrics and chord changes, along with some basic songwriting credit and recording history, but not to include melodic notes. So while I don't know if I'm the followup's primary audience, I'm certainly more predisposed than the average American to find value in Rise Again. We purchased the original Rise Again (the 15th Anniversary Edition) more than a decade ago, and while I can't say that it's led to nightly rounds with the family, neighbors, or strangers passing by on the street, we do dip into it occasionally. Assuming three minutes per song, that's another 60 hours or so of singing. The late Pete Seeger contributed a preface this time around and Billy Bragg the foreword. Now the pair are back with Rise Again: A Group Singing Songbook, a sequel featuring another nearly 1,200 songs for singing alone or (presumably preferably in the eyes of editors) with others. (The fact that no less than Pete Seeger wrote the introduction was a leading indicator of the book's acceptance in the folksinging world.) Musicians and songleaders, the two of them in 1988 edited and published through Sing Out! magazine Rise Up Singing, a collection of 1,200 songs. No doubt Peter Blood and Annie Patterson, the editors behind the Rise Again Songbook, strongly agree. and 23: Art Garfunkel 99 Miles from L.A.On its surface, the answer is "no," but the act of singing together produces a lot of other changes that might nudge the world into a better place, particularly in how we deal with people we meet.and 21: Annie Lennox Into The West Into The.and 19: Andy Taylor Dead On The Money Andy.and 17: America Smith Arrow American Bang W.and 15: Alissa Moreno Far From Here Alka Se.and 13: Alex Young Government Name (Part 1).and 11: Al Fatz Came Down Al Green Call Me.