Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...
In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost ...
In advance of her appearance at Tradfest in Dublin, Peggy Seeger recalls aspects of her incredible life in music ...
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...
Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.
The makers of A Complete Unknown gave up trying to make the singer-songwriter sympathetic, and let his music – and a bravura turn from Timothée Chalamet – provide the heart.
There’s a priceless moment early in “A Complete Unknown” when folk icon Pete Seeger returns to the cabin where he lives with his family after offering a young singer named Bob Dylan a place ...
Edward Norton as Pete Seeger in "A Complete Unknown." (Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) ...
It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...
The real-life people who show up in the movie A Complete Unknown, about young Bob Dylan, inspired a look at Pete Seeger's appearance on CBC-TV in 1965.
The Hollywood actor portrays American singer-songwriter and musician Pete Seeger in the Bob Dylan biopic, which is out now.