In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost ...

Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...

Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.

Even though A Complete Unknown glosses over Pete Seeger's trial, the true story of the FBI investigation and Congress hearing ...

I must heartily disagree with my friend Amy Worden’s recent column on Pete Seeger’s depiction in the Bob Dylan film, “A ...

Film director James Mangold also tells  Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career ...

Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...

Edward Norton as Pete Seeger in "A Complete Unknown." (Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) ...

It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...