That's why the scene makes your heart burst and your head spin at the same time ... Guthrie's buddy Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) in visiting him, and Bob walks into the room looking quizzical.

Photo illustration by Kelly Marshall When Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten was around 8 years old, she would slip into her older brother’s room when he was at work, take his banjo off the wall and ...

The musical collective he assembled featured a banjo player, fiddles and even a Tuba - the Seeger Sessions Band was born The music they play was inspired by legendary folk figure Pete Seeger with ...

Among the more agreeable inventions is a scene where Dylan jams with a Mississippi bluesman (played by Muddy Waters’ son Big Bill Morganfield) and Seeger joins them with his banjo on the folk ...

Pete Seeger, whose life’s mission it became to bring the five-string banjo out of the backwoods and have people play and appreciate it, performed and recorded many of the tunes – “Old Joe Clark” and ...

Greenwich Entertainment Her rapid emergence on the folk music scene brought her into the company of Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie, who became her close friends. From them and Bob Dylan ...

Mr. Schwarz, who was skilled on the fiddle, accordion, guitar and banjo, joined Mike Seeger, a half brother of the folk luminary Pete Seeger, and the guitarist John Cohen in the Ramblers after ...

Cotten’s signature song, it was eventually recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, the Grateful Dead and Pete Seeger. But all of ... she taught herself to play the banjo by borrowing her right-handed ...