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Bruce Springsteen: Letter to You review — the Boss plays it loose, and wins

  
The Times - 10.21.2020 Original article ›
Will Hodgkinson
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A new music album recorded live in 5 days from Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey, who brings lives of ordinary people in America to life with an earthiness and immediacy that bring memories of Woody Guthrie during the Depression years. This is a period of creativity of an unusual kind during the difficult period of the lockdown. Artists from Carla Bruni coping with daily chores of raising children, to McCartney and Springsteen tackling a period of mature years by decamping at their studio to try out unfinished work, turn out music albums in a casual way and to have fun doing it for yourself.

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Bruce Springsteen: An icon of freedom in East Germany | DW | 06.11.2019

  
DW.COM - 11.06.2019 Original article ›
Silke Wünsch (Db)

Tim Walz: Governor, Vice-Presidential Candidate, Local Music Fan

  
NYTimes.com - 08.09.2024 Original article ›
Marc Tracy
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Tim Walz shown as a local music fan in this report by Marc Tracy. A fan of Bob Dylan and the Prince. Did you know Bob Dylan was from Duluth Minnesota? And of Bruce Springsteen - specifically "Nebraska- Reason to Believe" a favorite of Nebraska's own Tim Walz. 

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Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94

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New York Times - 01.28.2014 Original article ›
Jon Pareles, Jon, Pareles
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American folk singer continued the folk song tradition set by Woody Guthrie with songs such as "Good Night Irene." He came from a family deeply committed to music, with his father a music teacher and mother a concert violinist. His own career spanned the period from the 1940's when he toured with Guthrie as part of the Almanac Singers, all the way to 2009 when he sang "This Land is Your Land," with Bruce Springsteen at the Lincoln Memorial. The key to the future said Seeger is to find the optimistic stories and let them be known. He lived in a wood cabin on 17 acres near the Hudson River in New York, and was the inspiration for other contemporary singers like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
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Trump a Working-Class Hero? A Blue-Collar Town Debates His Credentials

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The New York Times - 08.26.2016 Original article ›
Richard Fausset
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Fausset of the NYT looks at a rust belt city in the U.S. midwest that has suffered as U.S. manufacturing declined. Much of the decline happened in the 1980's in the steel industry in competition with Japanese imports. North of town there is a GM plant that makes the Chevy Cruze. The unemployment rate of 17% in 2010 has dropped to 7.6%. Fausset describes the life of a retired steel worker on state pension who works in law enforcement. He is Joe Marshall Jr. from the song by Bruce Springsteen about a steel worker who the singer read about in a book. Youngstown appears to be divided by people who support Trump and Clinton.

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From Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen: Why song rights sales are booming | DW | 16.12.2021

  
DW.COM - 12.16.2021 Original article ›
Annabelle Steffes Halmer, Stuart Braun

‘Letters to Answer, and Logs to Split’

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New York Times - 10.01.2010 Original article ›
Michael Wilson, Michael, Wilson
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The singer Pete Seeger about life after 90 - he turned 90 in 2009- and what he has learned over the years, and what he is still learning now. That includes homely stuff like how best to boil corn- he eats right, with less fat, less salt and sugar, which he says has helped him stay healthy. He lives in the house he built in Duchess county, New York. He loves to cut wood and describes the whack in cutting wood as something that started with man from the earliest times.
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Pete Seeger, legendary folk singer, dies at 94 - The Washington Post

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Washington Post - 01.28.2014 Original article ›
Bart Barnes, Bart, Barnes
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Folk singer Pete Seeger is the most popular folk singer in the U.S. since the 50's, and continues a tradition of folk songs started by Woody Guthrie in the 30's. He was able to bond with the public by having them sing along with him popular folk songs, including such tunes as "This Land is Your Land," "Michael Row the Boat Ashore," "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh," "On Top of Old Smoky," "Turn, Turn, Turn," "If I Had a Hammer." The tradition of music and dissent ran in his family with his father being a music scholar who taught the first musicology course in the U.S. and a conscientious objector in World War I, his mother a professional composer and violinist. He attended Harvard but lost interest during the Depression years and dropped out.
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Pete Seeger, Folk Singer and Activist, Dies at 94

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Wall Street Journal - 01.29.2014 Original article ›
Stephen Miller, Stephen, Miller

Pete Seeger’s Last Night on Stage

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New York Times - 01.28.2014 Original article ›
Jesse Wegman, Jesse, Wegman

Singer Pete Seeger Helped the Hudson

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Wall Street Journal - 01.29.2014 Original article ›
Joseph Avila, Joseph, Avila
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Pete Seeger used a sloop to take people down the Hudson River to educate them about the river and how it could come back to life if cleaned up. Today the river once polluted with sewage and oil pollution is clean enough to provide recreational opportunities. It also provides drinking water for the town of Poughkeepsie in New York. Hudson River Sloop Clearwater environmental organization which headed this effort is now the Riverkeeper which advocates environmental policies for the Hudson River. Seeger lived close to the outdoors in a log cabin on 17 acres near the Hudson River. He cut wood on this land since the 1960's and he says he loved the exercize and sound of cutting wood every day.
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Pete Seeger, a Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s

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New York Times - 01.28.2014 Original article ›
Jon Pareles, Jon, Pareles

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