10 Years Ago: Bruce Springsteen Pays Tribute to a Folk Music Hero on 'We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions' Even at a time when artists were pretty much required to turn out a new album every ...
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...
Seeger’s vision of the ideal society was not some high-tech futuristic metropolis but was rooted firmly in the past. America’s past. “When I was a boy, I read every single book by naturalist ...
Seeger’s most famous composition is “Turn ... Specifically, the track is derived from the Book of Ecclesiastes, a book of the Old Testament that is traditionally attributed to King Solomon.
The movie itself, directed by James Mangold, is based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties, which focuses on the 35-minute ...
Cunningly disguised in a yellow tie and three steel finger-picks, Pete Seeger '40 wowed 'em last night at M.I.T. Mr. Seeger sang and played various primitive instruments (including the banjo ...