Sadly, for many people, Seeger is still associated in memory with the Communist Party USA. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.” “He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. “I like to say I’m more conservative than Goldwater,” Wikipedia quotes him. On rural land in upstate New York, they lived for years in a log cabin he built himself. They immediately disappeared from radio playlists, and Seeger did not appear on television for 17 years, until the Smothers Brothers broke the boycott.īut he kept singing and playing the banjo, co-founded two folk-song magazines, and with Toshi, his wife of 62 years, did more and sooner than most to live a “green” lifestyle, just because it was his nature. The Weavers had many big hits before being blacklisted during the McCarthy years.

This documentary, directed by Jim Brown, is a sequel of sorts to Brown’s wonderful “The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time” (1982), which centered on the farewell Carnegie Hall concert of the singing group Seeger was long associated with. “Pete Seeger: The Power of Song” is a tribute to the legendary singer and composer who thought music could be a force for good, and proved it by writing songs that have actually helped shape our times (“If I Had a Hammer,” “Turn, Turn, Turn”) and popularizing “We Shall Overcome” and Woody Guthrie’s unofficial national anthem, “This Land Is Your Land.” During his long career (he is 88) he has toured tirelessly with song and stories, never happier than when he gets everyone in the audience to sing along. He’s the one in the front as they go marching in.

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