Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

"If Pete had pursued women instead of charity, I would have had a reason for divorce," the wife of singer-songwriter Pete Seeger sighs. His conscientious attitude towards life certainly did not make things easy for himself or his family. For example, he ended up on the black list in the fifties on account of his communist sympathies and during the Vietnam War patriotic Americans branded him a traitor because he called for pacifism. But Seeger is not a man to hate, as the person who had the intention of assassinating him can attest to, who, after a conversation with him, immediately converted to Seegerism. is a portrait of a committed artist, who not only believes in music that helps you overcome problems, but also helps you understand or even solve them. Beside the Seeger family, interviews with admirers like Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton and Bruce Springsteen are interspersed with archive images. If you just live long enough, you automatically become respectable, the now 88-year-old writer of the folk-classic , who attributes his 'un-American activities' to sincere patriotism, experienced. "Some artists made musical history, Pete Seeger made history with his music," former president Clinton says.