![]() Here are seven songs he taught the whole country to sing. Pete Seeger's celebrity is not great, but his influence in American folk music is overwhelming. At his 90th birthday concert, he told 15,000 people, "There's no such thing as a wrong note as long as you're singing it." From the man who could sing songs like " No Irish Need Apply" without sounding anachronistic, it rang true. Seeger spent his life working to bring American people back to their music, and to realize the dreams within their songs. It's a fitting age and place for America's greatest folk legend to pass for most of the tumultuous 20th century, he was the rare light of American hope, one of the few with an (often problematic) insistence on preserving our national dream. Seeger, who died earlier today at age 94 in Beacon, New York, was always dreaming big. Crewed by musicians, the Clearwater was a 106-foot dream campaigning for a cleaner Hudson River. In 1969, Pete Seeger sent his ship off on its first voyage. ![]()
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