Katrina vanden Heuvel of the Nation on Pete Seeger's 90th birthday celebration this past week in May of 2009:
"You outlasted the bastards, man," Bruce Springsteen told the roaring crowd.
I think that was my favorite line at the rollicking birthday concert celebrating Pete Seeger's 90th!
There were other uplifting, astonishing moments Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, at a five-hour concert which Seeger only OK'd because it raised much-needed funds for his Clearwater project--a non profit organization which the oft-maligned bard started in 1969 to clean up his beloved, polluted Hudson River...
Toward the end of the five-hour Seeger-apoza, Springsteen announced to the crowd, "Pete's gonna come out," and "He's gonna look like your granddad--if your granddad could kick your ass." If character and integrity keeps you youthful, and I believe it does. Seeger looked all of 25--of strong backbone and spirit and moxie and with keen eyes which are the stronger for having seen the best, and the worst, of our country's history.
In so many ways, Pete is a repository of American history in himself. As Springsteen said, he has a "stubborn, nasty, defiant optimism," and he serves as "the stealth dagger through the heart of our country's illusions about itself."
List of Songs on The Essential Pete Seeger CD:
1. If I Had A Hammer Pete Seeger 1:55
2. Goodnight Irene The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra 3:22
3. Barbara Allen (Live) Pete Seeger 4:30
4. Talking Union The Almanac Singers 2:58
5. Wimoweh (Mbube) (Live) Pete Seeger 1:49
6. John Henry (Live) Pete Seeger 4:11
7. Little Boxes (Live) Pete Seeger 1:52
8. Michael Row The Boat Ashore (Live) Pete Seeger 2:17
9. This Land Is Your Land (Live) Pete Seeger 2:59
10. Guantanamera (Live) Pete Seeger 4:38
11. Where Have All The Flowers Gone? Pete Seeger 2:03
12. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (Live) Pete Seeger 3:11
13. The Bells Of Rhymney (Live) Pete Seeger 5:13
14. Waist Deep In The Big Muddy Pete Seeger 2:55
15. We Shall Overcome (Live) Pete Seeger
You can also buy a great DVD portrait of Pete Seeger from the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (DVD) -- An Homage to America's Great Folk Emissary .
The Essential Pete Seeger [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] CD: Celebrate Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday!
Pete Seeger
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