Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...
After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.
Seeger shows Dylan around the house, proudly displaying the modern amenities of the rustic abode. But when he talks about how ...
It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger ...
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 ...
Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger. The folk singer was instrumental in discovering and mentoring Dylan, and the film follows how ...
The folk singer, who died in 2014, was famous for his songs about working people, unions and social justice. In this 1984 interview, Seeger cited Woody Guthrie as one his most important influences.
The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...