Mike Seeger, "icon of American folk music"

[Maurice]

Daily Telegraph

obituary:



Mike Seeger, who died on August 7 aged 75, was an American folk music icon who rediscovered forgotten performers and inspired new listeners to the genre, among them Bob Dylan, who called Seeger a "father figure".



In 1958, Seeger was a founder member of the New Lost City Ramblers, who reinvented folk music which had had its genesis decades earlier.



The group was a catalyst of the folk wave of the next decade which swept along Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and, more recently, the Carolina Chocolate Drops......



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...ke-Seeger.html

[Sgt Sunshine]

Sad news..........Sure he was on that Dylan Biography prog "No Direction Home".....

Sgt S

[bitterblue]

He was half brother of Pete Seeger, who amazingly is now 90!