[Coco] Read it and weep

[Boisy Pitre]

I know it’s getting off-topic a bit, but Pete Seeger did help promote Cajun music too. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPmTzjIr2s

On Jan 28, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:

> On 1/28/2014 10:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 28 January 2014 11:45:39 Bill Pierce did opine:
>> 
>>> Gene, I read that this morning and it saddened me greatly. I learned a
>>> lot from Pere Seeger. I was too young to be a part of the whole
>>> "protest movement", but discovered an old Pete Seeger album in a box of
>>> radio station "demo" records a friend gave me. It was just an album of
>>> some simple folk songs played on 4-string banjo. I then collected
>>> anything I could find on the man and saw a few performances on PBS. He
>>> showed me that a couple of chords and a simple line of truth could say
>>> more than any 10 page speech from a podium.
>>> 
>>> As Jimi sang it: "If I don't see you agin in this world, I'll see you in
>>> the next one... and don't be late!" And as Arlo would say: "We're just
>>> waitin' for it to come around again on the guitar...."
>>  And a lot of it did, covered by quite a few others.  But no one seemed to
>> have quite the easy flowing, but great diction that Pete did.
>> 
>> I wonder if his 4 string will ever show up at Christy's?  It should draw a
>> pretty good bid I'd think, since it positively reeks of music history.
>> 
>> Cheers, Gene
> To set the record straight, Pete Seeger played a long neck 5 string banjo, not a 4 string.  He played a style known as frailing/clawhammer, some times drop thumb.
> 
> Tim
> 
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