"Its first disc introduces the uninitiated to Seeger's career, bouncing across all the songs one could conceivably call his "greatest hits." ... The second disc digs a little deeper into recordings he made for Folkways in the 1940s and '50s, meaning there is far more from The Almanac Singers and The Weavers ... The other four discs tour the kinds of songs at which Seeger was so proficient: environmental songs, peace songs, civil rights songs, labor songs, and songs from the rest of the world beyond the United States. Though Seeger is best known for his delivery of protest songs and the way that he casually boiled down the complexities of war, peace, and social equity to digestible, understandable tidbits ...".