Posted on 01/28/2014 1:01:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 01/28/2014 5:49:40 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
By the 1990s, no longer a party member but still styling himself a communist with a small C, Seeger was heaped with national honors.
Official Washington sang along - the audience must sing, was the rule at a Seeger concert - when it lionized him at the Kennedy Center in 1994. President Clinton hailed him as "an inconvenient artist who dared to sing things as he saw them."
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Mark Levin is so great at describing these people.
Utopianism is in their DNA.
They have a utopian dream for society.
It is unattainable, an impossibility.
They don’t really care about that.
It’s like Pelosi, Conyers, et al, didn’t really care whether the AFA could work or exactly what was in it.
Carrying the dream around in their heads, building a life around its mere existence, and deriving whatever acclaim, money and power they can get from it is what matters.
Communism for THEE, but not for ME...
Good riddance.
Woody Guthrie was a Communist, and Communists are totalitarians. Everything they do is for the Cause. They never deviate from this principal. They are "soldiers with guitars/pens/whatever." Have you never read how one Communist writer in Hollywood who said that not every single thing had to be about politics was raked over the coals by his comrades and made to grovel and recant?
Perhaps you are unaware that Guthrie and Seeger stuck with Stalin all through the non-aggression pact with Hitler (y'sh"z), traveling about and singing "peace" songs against interventin . . . until their "motherland" was invaded.
The Carters weren't Communists.
I’m perfectly aware that they were of 1930s style Marxists. I was wondering what made their folk music ‘fake’.
Dreadful.
Clarence White died younger, didn't die from drugs, and had an ascending career. Not to mention Vaughn or Holly.
Bloomfield was at Newport in 65 with Dylan. Clarence White was at Newport in 64 with Doc Watson.
Most people don't even know even know who he is or they may know him only for his B Bender electric guitar. But prior he was an innovator on the acoustic guitar.
No telling where he would have taken guitar music had he not experienced the sharp knife of a short life.
But as a way of an example, Tony Rice ended up owning White's acoustic Martin Guitar and Marty Stuart ended up owning White's original B Bender Telecaster, which he used to record the Hummingbyrd album in 2011. He won a grammy playing Clarence White style music on Clarence White's guitar, almost 40 years later.
Clarence and brother Roland are on the Andy Griffith Show a couple of times in the first seasons. They never let those two talk, only Billy Ray and Leroy Mack, because their thick Maine accents wouldn’t work in Mayberry.
My grandmother in Vermont, rest her soul, would have called that a French Canadian accent, and she detested those frenchies.
The family name was Le Blanc and they changed it to White
Meh
Do we really need another thread about a dead Stalinist?
He was probably more of a Trotskyite, not that there's really all that much difference between them.
Cogent
We moved out in the country...a few years back
Horses and stuff.....southern Williamson...Lewisburg pike
Horses that are freezing their hides off
I looked out this morning and they were huddled on ground with my Rott sitting with them
I’ve never seen cold this protracted....9 degrees at one pm
I wonder if Stevie and Eugenia still live up there....summers
Bloomfield died young....kinda amped up guy...the H slowed him down I guess
Quite a few of those. It seemed Doc Watson had one on every record. Tom Dooley, Omie Wise, Otto Wood.
Communist Pete Seeger performed at Obama’s 2009 Presidential Inauguration:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3114687/posts?page=8#8
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