The Plowboy Pete Seeger Interview

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A Plowboy interview with singer/composer/author/social activist/environmentalist Pete Seeger.
A Plowboy interview with singer/composer/author/social activist/environmentalist Pete Seeger.
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Diagram: Figure 2 Baking in an oil-drum oven.
Diagram: Figure 2 Baking in an oil-drum oven.
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Diagram: Figure 1 Baking in an oil-drum oven.
Diagram: Figure 1 Baking in an oil-drum oven.

Learn more about the singer/composer/author/social activist/environmentalist in this Plowboy Pete Seeger interview. (See the oil-drum oven diagrams in the image gallery.)

For an individual who dislikes labels, singer/composer/author/social activist/environmentalist Pete Seeger has accumulated a goodly share during his 63 years. (“Some labels I’ll accept . . . ” he admits. “I’m a musician, I’m married, and I’m a U.S. citizen.”) Born in New York City in 1919, Seeger has spent most of his life trying to get people to work together toward the common goal of making this world a better place to live. And he’s chosen to communicate his message through music.
 

Today, Pete Seeger is–as one magazine profile aptly phrased it–the last active folk singer from the group of “originals” (people such as Woodie Guthrie, Jimmie Rogers, Lee Hays, and Leadbelly) who, during the first half of this century, reintroduced Americans to their rich heritage of native folk music and, in doing so, paved the way for the folk singers of the 60’s. Seeger has, over the years, composed–or collaborated with others on–some of this country’s best-known songs . . . including such titles as “Turn, Turn, Turn”; “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”, “If I Had a Hammer”, “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”; and “We Shall Overcome”. As a soloist, as a member of the Almanac Singers, and later as one of the Weavers, the now slightly balding banjo-picker has recorded more than 80 LP’s.
 

  • Published on Nov 1, 1982
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