In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost ...
Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier “legendary ... protesting the Iraq war on a snowy stretch of Route 9 near his home in Beacon, N.Y. He didn’t call in the press.
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 ...
The artist born Robert Zimmerman may not have acknowledged his debt to her, but Seeger is widely regarded as a foundational ...
I must heartily disagree with my friend Amy Worden’s recent column on Pete Seeger’s depiction in the Bob Dylan film, “A Complete Unknown.” If you purchase a product or register for an ...
It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...
Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.
Pete Seeger, one of the most influential artists ... played on a five-string banjo for the first time. When he returned home, he listened to records and learned to imitate what he heard.
Folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger was a regular on US radio over three decades and his music is celebrated to this day by artists including Bruce Springsteen. Seeger was one of the ...