PEGGY SEEGER Looking to the future with a first farewell
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eggy Seeger would like me to introduce her to you as an American songwriter who sings folk songs and songs she makes up herself. In truth she’s a bonafide folk legend, a songwriter with a prolific, highly influential and radically political career spanning seven decades. About to embark on what she says could be her last ever tour, Peggy was kind enough to take some time out on a Saturday evening to speak with me about it. Tell me about this tour. The tour is called the First Farewell Tour. It gives me the possibility of having a second one or it may be the last one. I’m
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84. I’ve had a long life of touring. At some point I’ll have to stop, I’m sure. It’s new songs, some of which I wrote about 20 years ago but were never recorded. It’s contemporary songs, songs I’ve made up either with my sons or with my daughter-in-law, or by myself. Hopefully we’ll have a CD ready, just in time. It’ll be made with both my sons and my daughter-in-law. I really like the songs that we make. It’s a dark album. At 84, you kind of see the goalpost. And lost memory is a lot of that in it. Looking forward towards the goalpost, looking backward at a long life. And there’s a couple of humorous ones on it. There’s a love song.
