pete seeger Watch Elizabeth Cotten show her 2-finger "Cotten Pickin'" style on her upside-down guitar Mark Frauenfelder

folk music 60s folk music motherlode on Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" TV show Gareth Branwyn

deaths FBI thought Pete Seeger was a commie Rob Beschizza

politics Check out "Elon Musk," a new protest song by Carsie Blanton, in the political tradition of Woody Guthrie Jennifer Sandlin

music 'Join Ice' is the protest song America needs right now Jason Weisberger

politics Tom Morello releases "FUCK ICE!" playlist Jennifer Sandlin

rock and roll Shortnin' Bread may be the greatest song of all time Bob Knetzger

music "The Ballad of Toshi" – On women gazing at men in biopics Ruben Bolling

music Joan Baez, 82, talks about drawing, panic attacks, and America's backward spiral David Pescovitz

music Watch The Monkees' auditions for the TV series (1965) David Pescovitz

music The original, wonderful, folky, and slightly schmaltzy recording of "Turn! Turn! Turn!" David Pescovitz

music San Francisco: Kronos Quartet's Kronos Festival 2019, May 30 – June 1 David Pescovitz

public archives A Studs Terkel Radio Archive will soon be public Jason Weisberger

music The Sounds of the Junk Yard, a 1964 vinyl record David Pescovitz

noads Listen to the sounds of an office, a vinyl record from 1964 David Pescovitz

happy mutants Tribute album to help pay radical singer Anne Feeney's cancer bills Cory Doctorow

music That's Trump: a Pete Seegeresque anthem Cory Doctorow

Copyfight 'We Shall Overcome' copyright may be overcome by same lawyers who freed 'Happy Birthday' into public domain Xeni Jardin

Pete Seeger bought a gong in China in 1972. FBI figured this was evidence he was a communist. Xeni Jardin

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