6/28/2023 0 Comments Pete seegerIn a spoken-word track on his new Guthrie tribute album, Pete Remembers Woody, Seeger tells the story of Guthrie's famous slogan. Seeger says Guthrie taught him not only lots of songs but also how to play in saloons, get paid first, how to ride the rails - carefully - and that no matter the consequences, to stick with your beliefs. So pretty soon, I was tagging along with him." I had a good ear and I stayed in tune, played the right chord, didn't play anything too fancy. "And in Alan's house I met Woody, and he found that I could follow him in any song he played. "I was working in Washington, D.C., at the time with Alan Lomax, the folklorist," Seeger says. Tall and lean, in faded Levi's and corduroy shirt, Pete Seeger still pretty much looks like he did when the young Harvard dropout met the man who helped him find his life's work: Woody Guthrie. And when you look back on it after these decades, you realize that Pete has been heard." "He sang at every little church, little school, summer camp, gathering - year in, year out, to kids and adults alike. he would never let that stop him," Bernz says.
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