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Vor 3 Tagen · Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, and had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly 's " Goodnight, Irene ," which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.
Vor 4 Tagen · On August 24, folk-loving families have a rare chance to hear Seeger, now 89 years young, play with his grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger and the bluesman Guy Davis. Bring the whole family along to...
Vor 2 Tagen · AbstractInspired by the lyrics of Passenger’s “Scare Away the Dark,” in 2015 the author delivered a lecture for first-year college students that asked the
Vor 3 Tagen · On Side 6 of “Live/1975-85” Springsteen performs a wonderful version of “This Land Is Your Land”, Woody Guthrie’s critical answer song to Irving Berlin’s schmaltzy, patriotic “God Bless America”. While introducing “This Land…” Bruce says “There’s a book out right now. It’s called “Woody Guthrie: A Life”. It’s by this fella Joe Klein…and it’s really, it’s ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Pete Seeger is a member of the generation where music and activism mixed throughout their lives. See what you know about one of the more famous of the politically controversial.
Vor 10 Stunden · And then around midnight a woman walked in, a civilian, no blue on her except her eyes. She was a Unitarian minister, making rounds, saw my name and remembered a column I wrote back in the Bush era saying what a terrible mistake the Iraq War was. My one good protest column and she remembered it all these years later. I told her I’m Episcopalian and that I’ve read Emerson and decided not to ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Cicadas make an appearance (every 17 years) in my novel CLOUD OF WITNESSES . At the end of the novel with several other apocalyptic events s...
