{"id":1305,"date":"2014-01-28T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-mountain.com\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2014-01-28T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T17:54:18","slug":"pete-seeger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Pete Seeger"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do not know if ever there was a greater performer than Pete Seeger. Many more, even hundreds have had better voices. Many more could play a guitar or banjo better. But as a performer, committed to justice and equality, none come close to this man. Seeger\u2019s greatness is on display in his 1967 Carnegie Hall Concert album, the best folk recording I have.<\/h3>\n

The Carnegie Hall concert was performed during the time of protest music, and Seeger was at the forefront, seeking justice, singing \u201cWe Shall Overcome.\u201d From time to time, I like to listen to Seeger\u2019s version of Dylan\u2019s \u201cHard Rain.\u201d It is a small punctuation mark of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a time we should remember but one we all avoid as a miserable little cockroach of history.<\/h3>\n

There\u2019s \u201cLittle Boxes,\u201d a wonderful tune of social satire written by Malvina Reynolds and featured by a long list of artists on the TV series, \u201cWeeds.\u201d<\/h3>\n

And then there is the ballad of a war fought for freedom and equality, played by Seeger as \u201chillbilly flamenco,\u201d a song all the much sadder because it was a song of the Spanish Civil War, a victory for fascism, \u201cViva La Quince Brigada.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Seeger entertained with a tenor voice that did not often ring with power (he could easily make it do so), but with a gentle kindness. To listen to him was to hear the legacy of Woodrow Wilson Guthrie and the so many other voices this country has produced seeking justice.<\/h3>\n

I am tempted to say those voices are lost and simply history, but that would deny the sort of people we are. We seem to tolerate a great deal of injustice, but then there comes a point that Americans say enough.<\/h3>\n

When they had, Seeger always wasin the forefront, first in the faith that we shall overcome. We will miss that.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do not know if ever there was a greater performer than Pete Seeger. Many more, even hundreds have had better voices. Many more could play a guitar or banjo better. But as a performer, committed to justice and equality, none come close to this man. Seeger\u2019s greatness is on display in his 1967 Carnegie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}