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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I watch Pete Seeger last week on youtube singing "ticky tacky houses". Sage 
had to refresh my memory on the name of the song.  My memory , on details, 
has really been slipping .....anyway,  ..... I like him on banjo ......bobford


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--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Pete Seeger - The Power of Song
> To: "Homestead" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:17 AM
> Our television is not connected to anything that will bring
> in  
> whatever is on tv these days. But we do like watching
> movies, so we  
> are subscribed to Netflix. Chris and I go look at the
> offerings from  
> time to time and she chooses chick flix and name-actor
> films and I  
> choose other stuff. One of my choices--the one in the
> subject line  
> above--showed up today and we watched it. Chris thought she
> would  
> probably not like it at all. She loved it.
> 
> The documentary starts by showing the Seeger homestead,
> including the  
> house he built himself. Various scenes show him working
> with an axe.
> 
> While his life is irrevocably intertwined in activist
> politics, his  
> music is the thing. From his gift ukulele as a boy to the
> guitar and  
> banjo, he spoke most loudly with his music. He made
> mistakes. He was  
> briefly a communist, refused to say what Congress wanted,
> became  
> blacklisted, came back bigger than ever. In 1966 he
> co-founded the  
> Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which has done good work to
> clean that  
> polluted waterway.
> 
> There are fun vignettes of Dylan, Baez, Springstein, Arlo
> and Woody  
> Guthrie, various members of his old groups. Lots of scenes
> from old  
> performances with The Almanac Singers and The Weavers.
> 
> Those who like folk music but don't like his activist
> politics can  
> still enjoy the movie. Seeger did much to popularize the
> five-string  
> banjo and the twelve-string guitar. He wrote music, he
> taught music,  
> he most loved to play and sing with an audience in full
> participation.
> 
> Pete Seeger is now 89, so I'm glad this movie was made
> while he is  
> still alive. He's an American classic, to many a hero.
> 
> "I like to say I'm more conservative than
> Goldwater. He just wanted to  
> turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want
> to turn  
> the clock back to when people lived in small villages and
> took care of  
> each other."
> -- Pete Seeger
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