AMERICAN STORYTELLER.(Pete Seeger)

From: Book | Date: March 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

From riding the rails with Woody Guthrie to campaigning for a cleaner Hudson River, reluctant folk hero Pete Seeger tells it like was, is and could be

PETE SEEGER HAS STORIES TO TELL, amazing ones. And he doesn't have to make them up. Sitting in front of a crackling fire at his home in upstate New York, the legendary folk singer can regale you with tales of being on the road with Woody Guthrie, as the two played impromptu tunes for striking oil workers in Oklahoma. He can talk about leading a crowd of civil rights marchers--with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. right up front--in a ...

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