Sometimes I think, in the end, only the voice truly matters. Dress it however you wish, zhuzh it up with textural condiments: cool electronics, warm strings, harsh noise, romantic rhythm, ambient atmospherics. It’s all decoration. The human voice is what we respond to most fervently and instinctively in popular music. This – far from infallible
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Singer-songwriter Peggy Seeger: still in the vanguard of her musical dynasty
A member of America s great musical clan, Peggy Seeger has been a fixture on the British folk scene for more than 60 years
by Liz ThomsonMonday, 12 April 2021 I can’t afford to be a purist because I’m not the real thing myself Vicki Sharp Photography
If American music has a royal family, it’s surely the Seeger clan. Charles, the patriarch, the composer, musicologist and teacher who could be said to have invented ethnomusicology, married first to Constance de Clyver Edson, a violinist and teacher.