Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last Sunday afternoon Seeger sang in Boston to an audience composed mainly of school children. Needless to say, he went through his familiar introductions; but although this might have been the ten thousandth time that he was explaining how "On Top of Old Smoky" was recorded in the Ozarks in...
"Make music your," he told the children; "discover what you like, what you feel happy singing, and sing it." He then offered a wide selection of children's songs, plus a few numbers that he has made his own. ("Wimoweh," naturally, and "The Bells of Rimini.")
A lady nabbed him during the intermission and explained that she had just begun guitar lessons and wanted to know how much practicing it would take until she could play "without looking." So Seeger offered his audience some advice on playing the guitar: "See how you strum; just keep the...
There are two good reasons for not enjoying Seeger's music, and both of them are pretty bad. Some people (who might simply be undergoing an antibody reaction to having heard the Weavers at Carnegie Hall several million times), feel that only Earl Scruggs and men like Pete Steele represent...
It is true that he has changed the Ozark flavor of "Old Smoky" and removed its twang. But it is not only the artist's prerogative to sing for the here and now; it is his job. If the simplicity and straightforwardness of style catches some off balance, perhaps they...