Seeger made his first recordings in New York in 1940 with the Almanac Singers musical collective. But above all, Seeger, blacklisted in the mid-1950s at the height of McCarthyism, was a deeply radical American. A multitude of artists recorded his work across six decades, including Odetta, Bruce Springsteen and Peter, Paul and Mary, and he recorded more than 100 albums himself. He wrote Where Have All the Flowers Gone? and helped make famous We Shall Overcome. The singer, banjo player and songwriter Pete Seeger, who has died aged 94, popularised folksong performance during the 1940s and 50s and was a key figure in the folk revival from the 60s onwards.
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