![]() ![]() ![]() Peggy Seeger, like her brothers, became an accomplished banjo and guitar player, and her work with her husband of many decades, Ewan MacColl, is testament to her music skill and terrific ear. His half brother Mike Seeger was, with Tom Paley and John Cohen, a core member of the New Lost City Ramblers, who seem to have single handedly kickstarted the urban folk revival and interest in early American Country music. Her brothers Pete and Mike had extraordinary careers, and Pete is considered responsible for the revival of interest in the five-string banjo. The Seegers are of course American Folk’s first family. Peggy’s dad was the composer/educator Charles Seeger, and her mother Ruth Crawford Seeger was a major American composer. The book’s title, First Time Ever, is drawn from a MacColl song which produced a huge hit for Roberta Flack and made the Seeger/McColl clan briefly ultra-solvent. ![]() Peggy Seeger has written an at times intimate biography charting her early years and her marriage to British folk legend Ewan MacColl, which produced several talented children. ![]()
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