OBITUARY: Mike Seeger Versatile Musician Major Influence on Folk Music Revival Dies

Mike Seeger, a folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music who was a major influence on the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, died last Friday of multiple myeloma at his home in Lexington, Va. He was 75. The younger half brother of folk musician Pete Seeger and part of a renowned musical family, Seeger dedicated his life to documenting, teaching and keeping alive traditional music of the American South. The interwoven strands of Anglo American ballads from the A...

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