6
5.
Turn! Turn! Turn!
(Book of Ecclesiastes, Peter Seeger)
6.
Song Of The Punch Press Operator
(Packer-Seeger)
7.
Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
(Peter Seeger)
8.
From Way Up Here
(Malvina Reynolds)
9.
The Clearwater
(Bud Foote)
10.
Last Train To Nuremberg
(Peter Seeger)
11.
Hobo’s Lullaby
(Goebel Reeves)
Charles married his student, Ruth
Crawford, now hailed as a major 20th
century composer. The couple had four
children; of them, Mike and Peggy Seeger
also became significant figures inAmerican
folk music.
In summer 1936, Charles and Ruth took
the 17-year-old Peter to the ‘Mountain
Dance And Folk Festival’ near Asheville,
North Carolina. The youth was fascinated
by the square dances and especially
Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s and Samantha
Bumgarner’s driving five-string banjo
styles. Seeger spent the next five years
perfecting his own banjo technique.
After dropping out of Harvard
University, Seeger became involved with
folk music, labor organizing and politics.
Alan Lomax encouraged the youth, hiring
him to catalog race and old-time music
