“I prefer to experience music live!”įulsome in his praise for Springsteen, Seeger swerves when asked about Bruce’s campaigning for President Obama. “I haven’t listened to any recorded music since I was 19,” claims Pete, a tad improbably. Its guest voices include Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris and Bruce Springsteen, the last having previously championed Seeger on 2006’s The Seeger Sessions, a record its namesake says he’s never heard. To honour the centenary of friend and fellow legend Woody Guthrie, there’s Pete Remembers Woody, while A More Perfect Union, a collaboration with fellow folkie Lorre Wyatt, is a collection of gentle but serious songs tackling issues from Hurricane Katrina to the BP oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico. In that indefatigable spirit come two new Seeger albums. “There’s a quote I like by a writer, Robert Fulghum: ‘There’s no hope, but I may be wrong.’” “I wanted to make the point – you should never give up!” Seeger told Uncut from his New York State home. Veteran of a thousand demonstrations stretching back to the 1930s, the godfather of folk protest marched 30 New York blocks in winter cold to prove not everyone’s politics mellow with age.

If there were other 92-year-old dissidents on the Occupy Wall Street march, the only one to make headlines was Pete Seeger.

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