Bring ‘Em Home
Mar 10th, 2008 at 8:55 pm by Susie
I watched “Pete Seeger: The Power of Song” on PBS tonight and it was wonderful. You know how Woody Guthrie’s guitar said “This machine kills fascists”? Pete’s banjo said “This music surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.” (I like his a lot better.)
Here’s Bruce Springsteen with one of Pete’s famous anti-war songs:




Wasn’t this a wonderful doc?
I saw it at the IFC in Manhattan last November. Walked out onto 6th Ave. afterwards singing “Goodnight, Irene,” and several other voices joined in…