Seeger, Beleaguered

Celebrating a Deathday™ (January 28, 2014): American folk music legend Peter “Bob” Seeger. Originally a member of “The Weavers,” Peter “Bob” enjoyed a decades-long run of radio success, starting in the 1950s on through the 1980s. He was also prominent in the progressive political causes of the day; indeed, he became the voice of a movement that dared to suggest that “We Shall Overcome” social injustice peaceably, via proper banjo and 12-string guitar picking. Later in his career, while other folkies were content to toe the coffeehouse party line, Peter “Bob” had the audacity to state, “I’d rather hear some blues or funky old soul,” even going so far as to exclaim, “I like that old tyme rock n roll,” which led to his immediate induction into the Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Old Flames, over more traditional rock bands like Chumbawumba, Dexy's Midnight RumRunners and Men Without Bowler Hats. Call him a relic, call him what you will. Say he was old-fashioned and over the hill. We remember him fondly. Peter “Bob” Seeger, the original "ramblin', gamblin' man," dead at age 94 in New York City or possibly the Motor City.