Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger 1919-2014

I chose this photo of a very old Pete Seeger, who died during the night last night, for a reason: it reveals the absolute beauty of age. The smile in his eyes, the happiness in his eyes, is captured by the camera just as clearly as the smile on his lips. He was a handsome young man, but this is true beauty.

My writing about the great and indispensable Pete Seeger will have to wait. I feel his loss too greatly to write now. God bless him. God bless and comfort the family and friends he's left behind. But he will never really leave us in such an important way. The legacy he leaves is tremendous, important, staggering!

There's a big folk festival going on in the skies tonight with Pete, Woody, Doc Watson, Merle, Mary Travers, and so many others. It's making pieces of the ceiling fall down here like snow, (it is snowing here) they are having such a party. Play it, folks. We are listening. Much love.

Pete Seeger before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee
1952

Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger and Doc Watson

You got to walk that lonesome valley

Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen

This Land is Your Land

Pete Seeger and grandson at Wolftrap

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Pete Seeger and the Weavers

Goodnight Irene

(around 1950)