Pete Seeger talks about The Almanac Singers, etc. (2006)

Pete Seeger, in a conversation with Tim Robbins for Pacifica Radio (2006), talks about The Almanac Singer, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, John Handcox, Theodore Dreiser, Alan Lomax, Millard Lampell, raising money for records (Songs for John Doe), The Daily Worker, Folkways reissue of "Talking Union" with additional recordings by The Songswappers (including Mary Travers, Erik Darling), Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Truman etc., and sings (parts of) "Why Do You Stand There In The Rain?" and "The Strange Death of John Doe" (model for Bob Dylan's "Man On The Street").

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[reefbismuth]

The living god of folk music speaks .  Thanks for posting

[thatssamhesgreat]

brilliant stuff. Thanks for this.

[Soularddave]

The last sentence in the interview is so important - and prescient.

[BenDuvallIrwin]

thanks for uploading this!