Power, indeed!(The First Words ...)(Pete Seeger: The Power of Song)(Movie review)

From: Sing Out! | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Moss, Mark D. | Copyright information

This may be an odd location in the magazine for a film review, but Jim Brown's latest offering, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, is not exactly your average folk film fare. And given how closely his subject's ties are to these pages, I hope you'll forgive this indulgence.

Let me start with an unqualified "bravo" for what is surely Brown's crowning jewel in a long list of excellent films that focus on folk music (including the Emmy Award-winning Wasn't That A Time, his 19...