Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger on Moe Asch and Folkways Records (1987)
Interview by Tony Scherman, Rock's Backpages Audio, January 1987
The folk revival's elder statesman pays tribute to Folkways founder Moe Asch: talks about the label's evolution, its principles and modus operandi, and its value as a preserver of marginal musical forms. Plus he speaks about Asch's relationship with Woody Guthrie and the EP This Land is Your Land; about Asch's business practices and the issues of royalties and copyrights. Finally, Seeger sums up Asch the man...
File format: mp3; file size: 55.5mb, interview length: 57' 46" sound quality: ***
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 28 April 1963
A LONGER perspective may revise the view, but it appears from a distance of a few months that 1962 was the year when the folk-music ...
The Weavers: Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 3 May 1963
7 WEAVERS OFFER 'REUNION' CONCERT Alumni and Future Member Join Folk-Music Quartet ...
Pete Seeger: Folk Music Live At The Village Gate (Verve VLP 5016)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 12 November 1966
PETE SEEGER is a man who could sing practically anywhere and give a good account of him self. On Folk Music Live At The Village ...
Pete Seeger: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 19 November 1966
HE DID it again! Every time Pete Seeger puts on a solo concert in Britain I wonder if he can pull it off, the unique ...
Pete Seeger: Together In Concert
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 28 June 1975
PETE SEEGER HAS just about every credential it's possible for a folk singer to have without actually being dead. ...
Retrospective by Dave Laing, The History of Rock, 1982
Pete Seeger spread the word throughout America ...
Seeger and Guthrie: A Tradition Continues
Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 1983
WHEN ARLO Guthrie and Pete Seeger performed together at Wolf Trap three summers ago, they managed to convince the sell-out crowd that they weren't really ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. 3 May 1919, New York, USA ...
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2001
IN THE mid-1960's Irwin Silber was editor of Sing Out! magazine, the leading folk periodical in the United States. Here he talks about his personal ...
Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome – The Seeger Sessions
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2006
What Bruce did next: a hoedown gospel blues klezmer-zydeco celebration of Pete Seeger. Obviously, says Phil Sutcliffe. ...
Bruce Blew My Cover: Pete Seeger
Report and Interview by Edward Helmore, The Guardian, 1 February 2007
ON THE FIRST Friday of the month, in fine weather and sometimes foul, you will find Pete Seeger, the folk-singing legend and pioneering environmentalist, in ...
Pete Seeger: The Voice Of America
Comment by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, April 2009
WHEN PETE SEEGER, the man Bruce Springsteen calls "the father of American folk music", walks on stage at Madison Square Garden on May 3 for ...
Pete Seeger's Birthday Concert: Madison Square Garden, NYC
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, May 2009
IN THE NEW biography The Protest Singer, folk music paragon Pete Seeger tells writer Alec Wilkinson that the single word he believes in above all ...
Pete Seeger: The road goes on for ever
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 28 January 2014
The folk singer believed in handing on the traditions he had done so much to save, so that others could carry them forward. It was ...
Elijah Wald: Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the '60s
Book Review by Peter Stone Brown, CounterPunch, 3 July 2015
THIS YEAR IS the 50th Anniversary of Bob Dylan armed with an electric guitar, taking the stage at the Newport Folk Festival, backed by a ...
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