although with that crowd “Where Have All the Showers Gone?” might have been more appropriate. The old banjo-picker lived longer than the penniless African he fleeced in his copyright heist of “Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)”; and twice or thrice as long as the average “dissenting artist” made it to under the regimes he admired over the years. He died in 2014 at the age of ninety-four. And cutting it mighty fine in that four-score-and-ten-and-then-some he had a re-think: National Review, September 24, 2007 IN THE NEW YORK SUN the other day, Ron Radosh had a notable scoop: Hold the front page! Stop the presses! Grizzled Leftie Icon Repudiates. . . . Who? Castro? Chávez? Al-Qaeda? Whoa, let’s not rush to judgment. No, the big story was: Grizzled Leftie Icon Repudiates. . . Stalin. A couple of months ago, there was some documentary or other “celebrating” the “spirit” of Pete Seeger, the folkie colossus, with contributions from the usual suspects—Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, one or more Dixie Chicks, two-thirds of Peter, Paul, and Mary, etc.
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