Will The Circle Be Unbroken.....

I was just listening to one of my favorite albums, a little thing called PRECIOUS FRIEND, recorded in what was once Pine Knob Theatre outside of Detroit by two Legends of the Folk World, Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie.

The old songs are the best ones, my friends.

Peter Seeger is the Father, Grandfather, Godfather, and Friendly Next-Door Neighbor of Folk Music, and without him (and Woody Guthrie, and Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman) we wouldn't have Harry Chapin, or The Kingston Trio, no Bob Dylan or The Band, or even the Smothers Brothers; no Joan Baez, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega; no Gordon Lightfoot, James Taylor, Bruce Cockburn, Jackson Browne, Jim Croce.

Woody Guthrie had something written on his guitar. It said, "This Machine Kills Fascists."




Pete Seeger's banjo also had a motto: "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It To Surrender."



He will be 92 in May.

Live forever, Old Folkie.

And one more day after that.