[Coco] Read it and weep

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 28 January 2014 18:19:26 Boisy Pitre did opine:

> I know it’s getting off-topic a bit, but Pete Seeger did help promote
> Cajun music too. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPmTzjIr2s
> 
> On Jan 28, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:
> > On 1/28/2014 10:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> 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
> > 
> > To set the record straight, Pete Seeger played a long neck 5 string
> > banjo, not a 4 string.  He played a style known as
> > frailing/clawhammer, some times drop thumb.
> > 
> > Tim
And I'll point out that what he is playing in the above video is a 4 
string.


Cheers, Gene
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