Pete Seeger
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That's the father figure that I think a lot of America is bending toward ... He's kind of daunting, don't get me wrong. But it's what we're aspiring to be these days, a father figure or a father-present like Pete Seeger rather than that mean-spirited top-down bullying boss who yells at kids on the soccer field.
I’ll tell you, Woody was like a correspondent who wrote from the perspective of someone in a boxcar. He wrote from the perspective of someone going down the rails, looking to the left and to the right, writing about the human condition, and the justices and the injustices he saw.
Mine is not traditional music, but it comes from tradition. My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people — for everyone, young, old and in-between.More quotes »
Around the web
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An appreciation: Doc Watson, flatpicker, song stylist, messenger
Watson, like Pete Seeger and Burl Ives, sang and played in glorious tune, was a stickler for tone, and conveyed his acoustic lines with a driving fluidity. Listening to his early sides recorded for Vanguard, his work on the seminal celebration of old-tim from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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The Seeger Family Tree
Most people are at least familiar with the through one of Pete Seeger's musical contributions (usually via songs like "If I Had a Hammer," which he co-wrote with Lee Hays, or "We Shall Overcome," which he learned from Zilphia Horton). What many people ar from About.com: Folk Music Read more »
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Michael Sigman: Howie Richmond (1917-2012): Music Publishing Pioneer With a Big Heart
You may not know the name Howie Richmond, but without him, it's likely you'd have never gotten to know the music of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly and many other essential figures in American and European popular music. Howie, who died peacefully from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Revival Announces Performance Dates and Stage Schedules
Clearwater 2011 gateway. Photo / Annie ChesnutFounded by Pete Seeger, Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival (The Clearwater Festival) is the country’s oldest music and environmental festival and takes place on June 16 & 17. Over the weekend, hundreds o from The Putnam County News and Recorder Read more »
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North Devon Journal published First lady of folk set to play at the Plough
PEGGY Seeger's musical pedigree speaks for itself: she is the daughter of composer and folk-song collector Ruth Crawford-Seeger; the half sister of Pete Seeger; and partner to Ewan McColl. It was for her that Ewan wrote the longingly beautiful The First from This is North devon Read more »
