[Coco] Read it and weep

[Richard E Crislip]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:20:11 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> 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

8-) Thanks, I thinken I forgot how to count ;-)