Artist: Pete Seeger Genre(s):
Other
Folk
Easy Listening
Pop
Discography:
Folk Singer Year: 2006
Tracks: 22
Pioneer of Folk Year: 2003
Tracks: 20
Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits Year: 2002
Tracks: 16
Songs of Protest Year: 2001
Tracks: 27
For Kids and Just Plain Folks Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
Live at Newport Year: 1993
Tracks: 15
The Essential Pete Seeger Year: 1990
Tracks: 23
Greatest Hits Year: 1990
Tracks: 25
Reunion at Carnegie Hall 1963 Part 2 Year: 1987
Tracks: 17
Precious Friend Year: 1982
Tracks: 25
Songs Pete Seeger Year:
Tracks: 28
Hard Travelling: Very Best of Year:
Tracks: 22
Perhaps no single mortal in the twentieth century has through more than to preserve, transmit, and redistribute folk music than Pete Seeger, whose passion for politics, the environment, and humanity bear earned him both torrid fans and vocal enemies since he number one began playacting in the belated '30s. His constant battle against injustice light-emitting diode to his beingness blacklisted during the McCarthy eRA, historied during the riotous '60s, and welcomed at union rallies end-to-end his lifespan. His industrious efforts regarding ball-shaped concerns such as environmentalism, population growth, and racial par have earned him the regard and friendly relationship of such political heroes as Martin Luther King, Jr., Woody Guthrie, and Cesar Chavez, and the generations of children wHO first base erudite to sing and clap to Seeger's Folkways recordings must number in the millions. Rising higher up all of Seeger's political ideals and his passion for authentic folks euphony is his clear voice and chiming banjo which both sing kO'd with a pellucidity that rings truthful.
Pete Seeger was born May 3, 1919, in Patterson, NY. The boy of Charles and Constance Seeger, Pete grew up in a menage filled with both music (his mother was a violinist and teacher, his founding father was a musicologist and conductor, both of whom had served on the mental faculty at Juilliard) and political activism (his father of the Church worked as a teacher at the University of California at Berkeley, where his pacificism earned him so many enemies that he resigned in the pass of 1918). The vernal Pete ab initio rebelled against his parents heat for music, only upon earreach a five-string banjo for the number 1 time at the Folk Song and Dance Festival in Asheville, NC, his dreaming of becoming a cougar was pushed aside. He studied sociology at Harvard University beginning in 1936, but left only before his last exams two age by and by, choosing instead to stray the American South fashioning playing area recordings with music bookman Alan Lomax. These experiences were the grounding of Seeger's repertoire of work songs, lullabies, ethnic music songs, and ballads that he would revisit end-to-end his musical life history.
Peter Seeger was drafted into the army in 1942, outlay a great deal of his time performing to troops in the South Pacific, and in 1943 he got married to Toshi Ohta (wHO has remained his wife for more than 50 eld). After his discharge he continued his travels passim the U.S., but as a performer rather of a bookman, playing wherever the great unwashed were collected, from taverns to churches. On March 3, 1940, he met Woody Guthrie at a migrator proletarian benefit concert, and shortly after the two helped mannikin the Almanac Singers, a slackly organized melodic corporate that included Lee Hays, Millard Lampell, Sis Cunningham, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Leadbelly, Josh White, Burl Ives, and Richard Dyer-Bennett at different multiplication. The Almanac Singers' calling was brief (lasting only o'er a year), just their disarmer attitudes and their ability to eviscerate orotund crowds brought them under the scrutiny of the political powers of the time. Upon the looseness of the Almanacs, Seeger, and Hays formed the Weavers with Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman wHO institute universal joint success with their smart renditions of kinsfolk songs and spirituals like "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," "Wimoweh," "Goodnight Irene," and "On Top of Old Smoky." Unfortunately, Seeger and Hays' leftist leanings had long been under the examination of the FBI, and ironically, their square and innocuous performances were drawing disdain from the traditionalist left-winger squeeze. In 1955 Seeger was brought before the House of Un-American Activities Committee and his testimony resulted in his organism blacklisted for 17 eld (and not officially cleared on charges of contempt until 1962).
Peter Seeger left the Weavers in 1958, for a solo career just as the seeds of the music they planted were rootage to postulate etymon on college campuses and in coffeehouses crosswise the U.S. He spent much of the '60s in the South, marching in civil rights protests and arranging an sometime spiritual into what he named "We Shall Overcome," which has go the hymn of the interest for equality oecumenical. In 1962, he assign the lyric to a dowry of the book of Ecclesiastes to music, capturing the palpate of the changing climate of the youth movement in his song "Ferment! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)." In add-on to the multitudinous social rallies he organized and participated in at this time, Seeger as well had a hired hand in many of the Newport Folk Festivals in the early and mid-'60s. His adherence to the holiness of ethnic music music came to a boiling point with the advent of folk-rock, and this was visibly demonstrated when he tried and true to overstretch the chaw on Bob Dylan's very electrified fix with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1965. His objection to the Vietnam War was made discernible during an appearance on the
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967 where he attacked Lyndon Johnson's warfare policies during his performance of the birdcall "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy."
Pete Seeger focused his attention on environmental issues in the '70s and '80s, notably with the launch of the sloop Clearwater (a floating classroom, testing ground, stagecoach, and speaker's forum) into the Hudson River in 1969. He as well remained active on the festival tour, appearing at out-of-door folk concerts and organizing rallies for whatsoever number of causes, from proletariat unions to antipollution statute law. The '90s saw Seeger onstage receiving awards as often as acting music; with honors including receiving the nation's highest artistic honors at the Kennedy Center, gaining first appearance into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and earning the Harvard Arts Medal (despite the fact that he opted not to graduate from the university). He likewise won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album of 1996, and in 1999 he traveled to Cuba to take the Felix Varela Medal (Cuba's highest honor for "his human-centered and artistic work in defense lawyers of the environment and against racism"). His ceaseless passion for arrival the black Maria and minds of those wHO will listen is summed up by the inscription on his banjo which reads "This machine surrounds hatred and forces it to surrender." Pete Seeger's music does non force hatred to surrender with muscle or intimidation, only with Seeger's dewy-eyed silver dollar and pure-hearted clearness which has genuinely changed the course of history during the 60-plus eld that he has been playing.
My Morning Jacket headlining MSG show
