I never liked the man’s politics. But his songs captured the feel of a more innocent and idealistic America. He put folk music in the popular culture.
I saw it differently. I think his music was fake and imitative. It seemed stilted to me. He imitated a true art form for the communist goals. That was the interest in folk songs.
He did fake folk music.
Seeger’s music was real but he perverted it for the communist cause. That should have been a crime itself, a crime against culture and humanity.
Would have gotten him 10 years in a cell in Hanoi and a firing squad in the Soviet Union, Red China, and No. Korea.
Met him once when he was having a press conference about pollution on the Hudson River. His nose was redder than Rudolph’s. Not sure whether he was drunk or suffered from a skin condition.
He acted like your friendly “uncle” but in life, he was really a pedophile for communism
He tried to cut the line when Bob Dylan was onstage playing an electric guitar “because it wasn’t authentic folk music”.
Maybe things would’ve turned out better if Pete had been successful in connecting axe to wire and gotten a heavy dose of electric reality.