"Getting people to sing is my main aim in life." . . . Pete Seeger . . .

[OneBlueSky]

Seeger Eager
by Billy Heller
New York Post
September 30, 2008

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09302008/entertainment/music/seeger_eager_131353.htm



IT's not that Pete Seeger doesn't want people to buy his new album, "At 89." It's just that he's got some conditions. And at 89, he's earned that right.

"As long as they buy the record to learn a song to sing," he says, it's OK. "But if they're only buying it to listen to it and not trying to learn one of the songs to sing, I'd say, 'Don't buy it.' "

Seeger, a Harvard dropout and WWII veteran who penned or popularized such American songbook staples as "Turn! Turn! Turn!," "If I Had a Hammer" and "We Shall Overcome," has been hammering away for world peace, brotherhood and a clean Earth for at least 70 years.

But he's also got another cause: the lost art of singing.

- more . . .

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09302008/entertainment/music/seeger_eager_131353.htm





Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, September 28, 2008 At an age where most men are struggling for breath, Pete Seeger has made a vibrant, full-bodied album that encompasses all his magnificent talents. . . Seeger is buoyed by guest vocalists, children's choirs, etc., but stays center stage throughout on this masterful outing by an American folk music giant heading into his 10th decade on Earth."

http://www.amazon.com/At-89-Pete-Seeger/dp/B001CW7LPM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1222782307&sr=1-1

[Rambis]

1. A National treasure

love the Pete!

[old mark]

2. I met Mr Seeger at an outdoor concert in the

early 1970's.
He was blind drunk and a nasty, foul mouth motherfucker.

Fuck you, Pete.

mark