Tom Morello’s unreleased AC/DC cover set to feature on a new compilation

A new compilation is set to feature a number of unreleased tracks from some of music’s biggest names, including a cover of AC/DC’s ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ by Tom Morello.

Back in 1997, Jim Musselman founded Appleseed Recordings, an American folk music record label that has gone on to release work by the likes of Pete Seeger, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and even The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn.

Now, for the label’s 21st anniversary, Appleseed are set to release a 3 CD compilation featuring tracks from of the biggest names in music, including Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, and Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, who has contributed a cover of AC/DC’s ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’.

Of course, some fans might have heard Tom Morello’s cover of the AC/DC track in the past, as his 2008 tour of Australia as The Nightwatchman saw Morello covering the likes of AC/DC and Midnight Oil, the later with members of Anti-Flag.

“The CDs in this 21st-anniversary set have been loosely organized by separate, but frequently overlapping themes,” explained Jim Musselman in a statement.

“They match my three goals in forming Appleseed Recordings – to provide an outlet for songs of social justice, both current and past; to release newly written songs of personal experience and emotion in modern times, and to keep alive the centuries of still-vital traditional songs from our country’s and our world’s history.”

“To learn how to move forward, we can never forget the lessons, or songs, of the past.”

Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots And Branches, is set to be released on October 19th, and will also features tracks from the likes of Joan Baez, Donovan, John Wesley Harding, and Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt.

Check out Tom Morello performing AC/DC’s ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ live:

Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots And Branches Tracklist

Disc One: “Let the Truth Be Told”

1. Pete Seeger – Oh Sacred World
2. Bruce Springsteen – If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)
3. Tom Morello – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
4. Tim Robbins – Well May the World Go
5. Joan Baez – I Wish the Wars Were All Over
6. Pete Seeger with Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle and Anne Hills – Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam)
7. Tom Russell – Across the Border
8. Johnny Clegg – Love in the Time of Gaza
9. John Wesley Harding (w/ Corporal Quorum) – Scared of Guns (Amended)
10. Sweet Honey in the Rock – Second Line Blues
11. Anne Hills – Needle of Death
12. Natalie Merchant & Friends – There is No Good Reason
13. The Kennedys – Give Me Back My Country
14. Studs Terkel – Blessed Be the Nation
15. Tom Morello – This Land is Your Land
16. Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome
17. Pete Seeger – Dr. King on Violence

Disc Two: “Wisdom Keepers”

1. Jesse Winchester – Get It Right One Day
2. Donovan – Poorman’s Sunshine
3. Dick Gaughan – Land of the North Wind
4. Tom Paxton & Anne Hills – Follow that Road
5. Al Stewart – Katherine of Oregon
6. Jonathan Edwards – Surrounded
7. Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt – Kisses Sweeter than Wine
8. Angel Band – Jump Back in the Ditch
9. Eric Andersen – Gonna Go Crazy
10. Tom Rush – What I Know
11. Sweet Honey in the Rock – IDK, But I’m LOL
12. Lizzie West & the White Buffalo – Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman (Thank You)
13. Joel Rafael Band with Jackson Browne, Jimmy LaFave and Arlo Guthrie – Stepstone
14. Tom Paxton – Looking for the Moon
15. Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt with Emmylou Harris – Somos El Barco/We Are the Boat
16. John Stewart – There is Love (Wedding Song)
17. Jesse Winchester – Sham-a-Ling-Dong-Ding
18. Dick Gaughan – When I’m Gone

Disc Three: “Keeping The Songs Alive”

1. John Gorka – The Water is Wide
2. David Bromberg with Levon Helm – Bring it With You When You Come
3. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Roving Gambler
4. Tim Eriksen – Careless Love
5. Donovan – Wild Mountain Thyme
6. Roger McGuinn with Judy Collins – John Riley
7. John Wesley Harding – Canadee-I-O
8. Bernice Johnson Reagon with Kim & Reggie Harris – Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep
9. Pete Seeger – Going Across the Mountain
10. Frank Proffitt – Tom Dooley
11. Guardabarranco – Asturias
12. Lila Downs – El Quinto Regimiento
13. Aoife Clancy – Are You Sleepin’, Maggie?
14. Alec Stone Sweet – Mrs. Poer, or, The Concerto
15. Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin – Sow ‘Em on the Mountain
16. Steve Young – Little Birdie
17. Mike Seeger and Peggy Seeger – Cindy
18. Sharon Katz & the Peace Train – Sanalwami
19. Danny Glover and Rev. Robert B. Jones, Sr. – Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
20. Kim and Reggie Harris – Wade in the Water
21. John Stewart & Darwin’s Army – Bay of Mexico
22. Tommy Sands with Dolores Keane and Vedran Smailovic – Where Have All the Flowers Gone

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