Mike Seeger
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Biography
[Edit]Born into one of the first families of American folk music, it was probably inevitable that Mike Seeger would become a musician and folklorist. His father and mother, Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, assisted John and Alan Lomax at the Archive of Folk Song in the Library of Congress. Mike's half-brother, Pete Seeger, performed in both the Almanac Singers and the Weavers, while his sister Peggy Seeger was highly regarded in traditional music circles. There was little surprise, then, when Mike Seeger, at the age of 25, joined Tom Paley and John Cohen to form the New Lost City Ramblers.
It is perhaps ironic that a traditional performer like Seeger was born in New York City to a middle-class family. Born on August 15, 1933, he began playing the autoharp at the age of 12. Soon, he also began playing the banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, mouth harp, mandolin, and dobro. His parents brought music home from the Library of Congress. "They started letting me play field recordings when I was six or seven," Seeger told Dirty Linen. "These were aluminum records that you played with cactus needles." He was also influenced by the African-American singer/guitarist Elizabeth Cotton, who lived in the Seeger home for five years.
In the early '50s, Seeger began to conduct his own field recordings and perform at square dances in the Washington, D.C., area with his sister Peggy. Because he was a conscientious objector, he was assigned work in a hospital, and during this time formed a band with Hazel Dickens and Bob Baker. In 1958, he helped form the New Lost City Ramblers, a band that specialized in performing string band music from the 1920s and 1930s. While the band never gained the exposure of folk revival bands like the Kingston Trio, the group's commitment to accurately reproducing traditional music proved significant. "The Ramblers' influence on generations of young musicians who have followed in their footsteps," wrote Randy Pitts in Music Hound Folk, "is incalculable."
In 1962, when Tracy Schwarz replaced Paley in the Ramblers, Seeger became involved in a number of solo projects. He recorded Mike Seeger for Vanguard in 1964 and Tipple, Loom & Rail: Songs of the Industrialization of the South for Folkways in 1965. In the late '60s, Seeger, Dickens, Alice Gerrard, and Lamar Grier formed the Strange Creek Singers (Arhoolie released Strange Creek Singers: Get Acquainted Waltz in 1975, reissued in 1997). He also became involved in the Newport Folk Festival and, in 1970, became the director of the Smithsonian Folklife Company. In 1970, he married Gerrard, though they later divorced.
Seeger continued to involve himself in a multitude of projects. Beginning in the 1970s, he recorded a string of albums for Rounder, and he continued to compile scholarly projects such as Southern Banjo Sounds (1998) and True Vine (2003) — both for Smithsonian Folkways. He was nominated for three Grammys, won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, received the Rex Foundation's Ralph Gleason Award in 1995, and an Award of Merit from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) the same year. "I feel there's just as much fun in old-time music as there's ever been," Seeger told Dirty Linen in 1997. "People ask me, don't you get tired of it? And some people do, but I think I could have three more lifetimes and not get tired of it." Seeger's 2007 album Early Southern Guitar Sounds was released on Smithsonian Folkways. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., Rovi
Title: Indian Summer (Original Sound Track Music)
Artist: Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Kids, Theatre/Soundtrack, Contemporary Folk
Title: Indian Summer: Original Soundtrack
Artist: Mike Seeger, The Pete
Genre: World Music, Theatre/Soundtrack, Folk
Title: Tipple, Loom & Rail: Songs of the Industrialization of the South
Artist: Mike Seeger
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: American Play Parties
Artist: Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger
Genre: Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Kids, Contemporary Folk
Title: 3rd Annual Farewell Reunion
Artist: Mike Seeger
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Way Down in North Carolina
Artist: Paul Brown, Mike Seeger
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Southern Banjo Sounds
Artist: Mike Seeger
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Fresh Oldtime Stringband Music
Artist: Mike Seeger
Genre: Folk Rock, World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: FestivaLink presents Mike Seeger at MerleFest 4/28/06
Artist: Mike Seeger
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Solo - Oldtime Country Music
Artist: Mike Seeger
Genre: Folk Rock, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Early Southern Guitar Styles
Artist: Mike Seeger
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Collections
Title: Tone Poets
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Mountain Music Bluegrass Style
Genre: Country
Title: Hootenanny At Carnegie Hall
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Folk Roots - The Sound of Americana
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The American Fogies, Vol. 2
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Christmas at Mountain Stage
Genre: Rock, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways
Genre: Country
Title: Musical Travel Guide: Banjo Music of the Ozarks
Genre: World Music
Title: Feuding Banjos
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Folkways
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: American Folk & Country Festival
Genre: Blues, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Traditional Banjo Music of the Ozarks
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: American Banjo: Three-Finger and Scruggs Style
Genre: Country
Title: Masters of Old-time Country Autoharp
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Mountain Breakdown - The Bluegrass Collection
Genre: Country
Title: Feuding Banjos
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Banjo Story, Vol. 1 (Remastered)
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Mountain Breakdown (The Bluegrass Collection)
Genre: Country
Title: The Old Time Banjo Festival
Genre: Country, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Bluegrass Breakdown
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Roots of Americana Folk & Blues
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Banjo Breakdown
Genre: Country
Title: The Banjo - A Collector's Treasury (CD2)
Genre: Country
Title: The Banjo - A Collector's Treasury (CD1)
Genre: Country
Title: Classic Railroad Songs
Genre: American Folk
Title: The Real Music Box ~ 25 Years Of Rounder Records (CD1)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: The Greenwich Village Folk Scene (CD1)
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: The Greenwich Village Folk Scene (CD2)
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: Appleseed's 21st Anniversary: Roots And Branches (CD2)
Genre: Blues, Jazz, Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Pop, Folk
Featuring albums
Title: Three Score and Ten
Artist: Peggy Seeger
Genre: Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Classic Old-Time Fiddle from Smithsonian Folkways
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Classic Folk Music from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Contemporary Folk, Folk
Title: Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country, Alternative Country
Title: Feuding Banjos - Bluegrass Banjo Of The Southern Mountains
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Country, Alternative Country
Title: Live at Caffe Lena: Music from America's Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Folk
Title: Traditional Banjo Music of the Ozarks
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Alternative Country, Folk
Title: Christmas @ Mountain Stage
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Country, Progressive Country , Contemporary Folk, Folk
Title: Fresh Oldtime String Band Music
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Appleseed's 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist