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To: Borges
It marked the beginning of the introduction of political themes and overt social causes into American pop music — a process that would be continued by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and countless others to the point that now we take it for granted.

It also meant then to score with chicks you had to mention "Modern Art, Civil Rights or Folk Music."

5 posted on 01/29/2014 6:57:05 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

In 1973 someone summed the entire 60’s antiwar and counterculture movement in a single sentence:

“You know, a lot of guys joined the revolution just to get laid.”

Anyway, Seeger is dead. For those who mourn, I hope the rocks fall on them.


36 posted on 01/29/2014 7:34:07 AM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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