Artists:Pete Seeger
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In 1935, when Pete Seeger was 16, he was playing tenor banjo in the school jazz band. He was growing disinterested in the classical music which his parents taught at Juilliard. But that summer he visited the Folk Song and Dance Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and heard the five-string banjo for the first time. His life was changed forever. Whereas most popular music seemed sappy or trivial to Seeger, these songs seemed frank, straightforward, honest. Folk music's new convert was to become its greatest proselyte. "I liked the rhythms," Seeger said. "I liked the melodies, time tested by generations of singers. Above all, I liked the words."
Seeger did well enough in the boarding school at Avon Old Farms in Avon, Connecticut to go on to Harvard in 1936, entering the sociology department with the intent to study languages, anthropology, and geography. Academics proved a weaker attraction than the life of a traveling musician, and Seeger left college before the final exams of his sophomore year, setting out to absorb American folk music straight from its roots in communities across the country. He made his way to New York, where he eventually landed a job with the Archives of American Folk Music. Seeger spent 1939 and 1940 seeking out legendary folk-song figures such as the blues singer Leadbelly and labor militant Aunt Molly Jackson. Seeger traveled all around the United States, learning "a little something from everybody" as he sought to master the five-string banjo and internalize the folk traditions he'd come to love..
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Erie Canal (Version 2) | American Favorite Ballads | 2:34 | 8 |  11 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Folk / Banjo / Solo vocalist | Swanee River | American Favorite Ballads | 2:57 | 9 | 8 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Folk / Solo vocalist / Acoustic | Last Train To Nuremberg | Rainbow Race | 2:43 | 11 | 8 votes |
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