Re: Pete Seeger on PBS last night

On Mar 1, 9:36 am, Avant Grape <avantnograpec...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ML wrote:
On Feb 29, 5:19 pm, Avant Grape <avantnograpec...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

-JC
*who never cared much for the self-righteous, square, white-bread,
puritan folkie movement. Thank god for Dylan.

You really think that, JC? I think that is awfully unfair & untrue.
If you were serious

Hey, so I don't like ivy league, intellectual, square, new age folk that
is a pale imitation of the real thing. So sue me.

Don't get me wrong. There's a few songs here and there that are worth
hearing and every so often as message or two bears repeating, but the
scene overall was so conformist and square, it could be nothing I would
ever support when it comes to art or music. Conformity just sucks.
That's why I said thank god for Dylan. He made irrelevant what was a
American musical tragedy. These people were "purifying" folk music. It
didn't need purifying. Heck, I'd rather listen to George Jones over
Pete Seeger any day of the week, even if my politics veer to the left.

-JC

Spoken like someone who never saw the subject documentary. Pete worked
with Woody Guthrie to preserve authentic American Folk and Labor music
as evidenced by Springsteen's Seeger sessions revival. What Pete
deserves the Nobel for is that he almost singlehanded did the same for
world music, defied HUAC in the 50's and was cleared by the SC and
always worked for peace, working people and the environment.
Go watch the doc JC, then come back and talk.
.

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