[Coco] Read it and weep
Gene Heskett
gheskett at wdtv.com
Tue Jan 28 12:02:14 EST 2014
On Tuesday 28 January 2014 11:45:39 Bill Pierce did opine:
> Gene, I read that this morning and it saddened me greatly. I learned a
> lot from Pere Seeger. I was too young to be a part of the whole
> "protest movement", but discovered an old Pete Seeger album in a box of
> radio station "demo" records a friend gave me. It was just an album of
> some simple folk songs played on 4-string banjo. I then collected
> anything I could find on the man and saw a few performances on PBS. He
> showed me that a couple of chords and a simple line of truth could say
> more than any 10 page speech from a podium.
>
> As Jimi sang it: "If I don't see you agin in this world, I'll see you in
> the next one... and don't be late!" And as Arlo would say: "We're just
> waitin' for it to come around again on the guitar...."
And a lot of it did, covered by quite a few others. But no one seemed to
have quite the easy flowing, but great diction that Pete did.
I wonder if his 4 string will ever show up at Christy's? It should draw a
pretty good bid I'd think, since it positively reeks of music history.
Cheers, Gene
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