love that quote. this may be a bit behind the folk wave that hit a few weeks back, but i wanted to pass along this link to an npr piece on pete seeger... majority of it is an interview with the man in 1984. he goes on about playin nickel songs with woody guthrie, gettin folk tunes on mainstream radio with the weavers and being blacklisted for 'associating with unamerican types'. interesting guy. downloads as a real player or windows media player file.
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This is nice. I look forward to listening to the npr piece.
btw, Arlo is Woody Guthrie's son, not Pete Seeger's. Maybe you meant it figuratively: all folk singers who came after Pete are his "sons"...?
I once met Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Pete's grandson. He's old-timey rock 'n' roller with the group the Mammals. I always thought it would be cool to have Pete Seeger as a grandpa.
colin - thought there was something wrong with that entry. it might've been due to the fact that i was half in the bag when i posted it. note to self: don't drink and blog.... i concur, pete would be about the coolest possible grandpa this side of Grandpa from the Munsters.
I just listened to this npr piece. Very good. I hadn't heard most of the stories he told before. Thanks again.
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