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Sunday May 3, 2009 is Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday. All what a life. He is a great musician. His father was classically trained and a gifted musician. Pete can play a very good banjo and guitar. Has been doing it now for decades.

Pete always stuck up for what he believed in and saw America’s problems and celebrations. He has never done drugs like rock artists that he has influenced and he has always been a family man with one wife and four kids.

One he lost while he was serving in World War 11. He actually served is county. He spoke against the Vietnam War. So it must have been a worthless war for a solider of another to protest. He is not heavy in rock is lyrics are fine.  Up the Big Muddy is the protest song. If you can go to prison for saying nilly than there is something certainly wrong. Nill just means against convention. It is nice the Pete is a nillist.

He served is year in in the sixties for speaking out and it was wrong like the greatest Beatle John Lennon who was traumatized by Hebert Hoover and the U. S. govt. Seeger was clean. Imagine a world to quote Lennon and your friends are treasure to quote Seeger when their lyrics are good and gross profanity is strung throughout musical lyrics today.

Well. Pete is still alive and well. Last year he recorded  Seeger at 89 with a lot of of his original songs on it and it is good. It is good. He could get to the people and sing soul, rock, and classical as with Tenza, Tenza, Tenza.

He has taught music all over the world and played in schools. He got in trouble in the sixties for nothing. He was telling the truth. Like he did recently with Yankee Doodle Dandy. It is a protest from British against Americans during the revolutary war.

Pete Seeger has influence big artists like Bruce Springsteen who played at the 2009 super bowl. Working on a Dream. His latest album has the track Outlaw Pete on it the same guy.

He had a whole range of singers do a tribute album to him in 1990 Where Have the Flowers Gone that includes non conventional artist like Donovan, Springsteen and Blues Bonnie Raitt.

Seeger wrote his own memoir in the 70sImcompleat Folksinger. It is good and there is a new biography that just got released this month The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger. It is very short for a biography but well written and you can read it at the bookstore with buying it. It has great information. You can learn something new. A great birthday book.

Pete did not discriminate. Martin Lurther King Jr. was a friend. We Shall Overcome is a beautiful song that is avabile  from both Seeger and Springsteen. What a great honor to have the Boss cover you song.

Well Seeger’s work did not go unchecked. He was given at concert at the Kennedy Center in 1994. Clinton was president and a jazz sax player. Go Bill. Even he saw talent.

So do your self a favor. This weekend download a tune to your mp3 player or read a book. This 90th birthday is well deserved. Happy Birthday Pete!