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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: Suzanne Vega, Pete Seeger, Baby Gramps, Victoria Williams, Christine Lavin, Peter Case, Tracy Chapman, Pierce Pettis, Ellis Paul, Tom Paxton, Loreena McKennitt, Odetta, Lyle Lovett, Peter Yarrow, David Wilcox, Dave Van Ronk, Shawn Colvin, Chris Smither, The Roches, Tom Russell, Suzy Bogguss, Michael Peter Smith, Nanci Griffith, Andy Breckman, Kirk Kelly, Eric Andersen, Greg Brown, Fred Holstein, Jack Hardy, Christian Bauman, Oscar Brand, Catie Curtis, Ed McCurdy, The Nields, Michelle Shocked, Steve Forbert, Dan Bern, Bob Bennett, Cheryl Wheeler, John Gorka, John Kruth, John McCutcheon, Richard Shindell, Lucy Kaplansky, Frank Hamilton, Happy Traum, Hugh Blumenfeld, Bob Franke, Rod MacDonald, Gregg Cagno, Hugh Moffatt, Rachael Sage, Lynn Miles, Bill Morrissey, Bingo Gazingo, Lou and Peter Berryman, Darryl Purpose, Robin and Linda Williams, Julie Gold, Chuck Brodsky, Stephen Wade, Lui Collins, Gabriel Yacoub, David Massengill, Louise Taylor, Linda Sharar, Jim Savarino, Fred Small, Andrew Calhoun, Vance Gilbert, Sammy Walker, Richard Meyer, Geoff Bartley, Frank Christian, Tom Intondi, Barbara Kessler, Michael Fracasso, Jim Infantino, Greg Greenway, Camille West, Roger Manning. Excerpt: Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of The Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, and environmental causes. As a song writer, he is bes...
