This article refers to the plant family and its dried fruit shell. For the music group of a similar name, see The Gourds. For details on gourd species, please refer to List of gourds and squashes.

Gourds grown in a suburban garden

A calabash gourd, used for drinking yerba maté

A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae. Gourd is occasionally used to describe crops like cucumbers, squash, luffas, and melons.^[1] The term gourd, however, can more specifically refer to the plants of the two Cucurbitaceae genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita^{[citation needed]}, or also to their hollow, dried-out shell.^[2] The hard-rinded fruits can have carving done to create scenes raised in relief.^[3] Painting^[4] and wood burning^[5] are also used to decorate the shells.

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gourd". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• Erickson DL, Smith BD, Clarke AC, Sandweiss DH, Tuross N (December 2005). "An Asian origin for a 10,000-year-old domesticated plant in the Americas". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (51): 18315–18320. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0509279102. PMC 1311910. PMID 16352716. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16352716. 
• Smith, Bruce D. (May 1997). "The Initial Domestication of Cucurbita pepo in the Americas 10,000 Years Ago". Science 276 (5314): 932. DOI:10.1126/science.276.5314.932. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/276/5314/932. 

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Richie Havens
Richie Havens in 2006
Background information
Born	(1941-01-21) January 21, 1941 (age 71) Brooklyn, New York City New York, United States
Genres	Folk rock, Funk
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, activist
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, sitar
Years active	1965–present
Labels	Verve Forecast, Universal, Stormy Forest, MGM, A&M, PolyGram, Solar, Epic, SME, Rykodisc
Website	www.richiehavens.com

Richard P. "Richie" Havens (born January 21, 1941) is an African American folk singer and guitarist.^[1] He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

Career[link]

Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children.^[1] At an early age, he began organizing his neighborhood friends into street corner doo-wop groups and was performing with The McCrea Gospel Singers at 16.^[1] At age 20, Havens left Brooklyn, seeking artistic stimulation in Greenwich Village. "I saw the Village as a place to escape to, in order to express yourself," he recalls. "I had first gone there during the Beatnik days of the 1950s to perform poetry, then I drew portraits for two years and stayed up all night listening to folk music in the clubs. It took a while before I thought of picking up a guitar."^{[citation needed]}

Havens' reputation as a solo performer soon spread beyond the Village folk circles.^[1] After cutting 2 records for Douglas Records, Havens signed on with Bob Dylan's manager Albert Grossman, and landed a record deal with the Verve Forecast label. Verve released Mixed Bag in 1967, which featured tracks like "Handsome Johnny" (co-written by Havens and future Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr.), "Follow", and a cover of Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman". By 1969, he had released five more albums. Something Else Again (1968) became Havens' first album to hit the Billboard chart and also pulled Mixed Bag back onto the charts.

Havens' reputation as a live performer earned him widespread notice. His Woodstock appearance proved to be a major turning point in his career.^[1] As the festival's first performer, he held the crowd for nearly three hours (in part because he was told to perform a lengthy set because many artists were delayed in reaching the festival location), and was called back for several encores. Having run out of tunes, he improvised a song based on the old spiritual "Motherless Child" that became "Freedom". The subsequent Woodstock movie release helped Havens reach a worldwide audience. He also appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival in late August 1969.^[2][3]

Following the success of his Woodstock performance, Richie started his own record label, Stormy Forest, and delivered Stonehenge in 1970. Later that year came Alarm Clock, which yielded the George Harrison penned hit single "Here Comes the Sun", and became Havens' first album to reach Billboard’s Top 30 Chart.^[1] Stormy Forest went on to release four more of his own albums: The Great Blind Degree (1971), Live On Stage (1972), Portfolio (1973), and Mixed Bag II (1974).^[1] Memorable television appearances included performances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. On the latter program, the audience reacted with such enthusiasm that when the applause continued even after the commercial break, Carson asked Havens to return the following night.

Havens performing in Hamburg, May 1972

Havens also branched out into acting during the 1970s. He was featured in the original 1972 stage presentation of The Who's Tommy,^[4] and appeared as Othello in the 1974 film Catch My Soul. He also appeared in Greased Lightning alongside Richard Pryor in 1977. In 1987, he landed a role in the Bob Dylan vehicle Hearts of Fire.^[5]

Increasingly, Havens devoted his energies to educating young people about ecological issues. In the mid-1970s, he co-founded the Northwind Undersea Institute, an oceanographic children’s museum on City Island in the Bronx. That, in turn, led to the creation of The Natural Guard, an organization Richie describes as "a way of helping kids learn that they can have a hands-on role in affecting the environment. Children study the land, water, and air in their own communities and see how they can make positive changes from something as simple as planting a garden in an abandoned lot."^{[citation needed]}

During the 1980s and 1990s, Havens continued a world touring schedule and a steady release of albums. The release of 1993’s Resume, The Best Of Richie Havens Rhino collected his late 1960s and early 1970s recordings.

In 1982, Havens composed and performed a promotional slogan for NBC's 1982-83 television season entitled, We're NBC, Just Watch Us Now. He also performed slogans for CBS and ABC,^[6] and recorded commercials for Amtrak, singing the slogan "There's something about a train that's magic." Havens has also done corporate commercial work for Maxwell House Coffee as well as singing "The Fabric of Our Lives" theme for the cotton industry.

In 1993, Havens performed at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Among the selections was the "Cotton" song, made famous by a series of television ads in the early 1990s.^[7] In 1999, Havens played at the Tibetan Freedom Concert for an audience of more than 100,000.^[8]

Havens also played a small role as a character named Daze in a 1990 film named Street Hunter starring John Leguizamo.

In 2003, the National Music Council awarded Havens the American Eagle Award for his place as part of America’s musical heritage, and for providing "a rare and inspiring voice of eloquence, integrity and social responsibility."

Collaborations[link]

In 2000, Havens teamed up with the electronic music duo Groove Armada for the retro 1970s-style song "Hands of Time". The track was featured on the soundtrack for the film Collateral, starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx; the same song also used in the films Domino starring Keira Knightley, and Tell No One with François Cluzet. Havens was also featured on Little By Little and Healing on the band's third album Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub).^[9]

He has collaborated with other artists including former Genesis members Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel, Bill Perry, Dayna Kurtz, and Anton Fig.^[9]

Present day career[link]

In 2000, Havens published They Can't Hide Us Anymore, an autobiography co-written with Steve Davidowitz. Havens has maintained his status as a folk icon, and continues to tour. In 2002, Havens released Wishing Well, followed by the 2004 album, Grace of the Sun.

On October 15, 2006, Havens was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.^[10]

In 2007, Havens appeared as "Old Man Arvin" in the Todd Haynes film I'm Not There. In a classic front-porch jam scene, he is shown singing the Bob Dylan song "Tombstone Blues" with Marcus Carl Franklin and Tyrone Benskin. Havens's version of the song also appears on the I'm Not There Soundtrack.

Havens was invited to perform at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Opening Ceremony. He played "Freedom" in tribute to his fan and jury president Sean Penn. He also performed at the London, Ontario Blues Festival in July 2008.^[11]

In March 2008, he released a new studio album titled Nobody Left To Crown.^[12] The first single release was country-tinged "The Key"^{[citation needed]}, which is sold as a single MP3 at Amazon.com.^[13]

Richie Havens appears in the acclaimed 2009 film "Soundtrack for a Revolution," which provides a general history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, and has modern artists performing many of the era's musical classics. In that film, Havens does a haunting rendition of the old song, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." ^[14]

On May 3, 2009, Havens performed at the fundraising concert in honor of Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. In June 2009, Havens performed at the fifth annual Mountain Jam Festival. The event, hosted by Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule guitarist, Warren Haynes, was held at the Hunter Mountain Ski Resort in Hunter, New York. As is tradition, the festival took place on the weekend following Memorial Day. On June 20, 2009, Havens performed at the Clearwater Festival. On July 4, 2009, Havens performed at the Woodstock Tribute festival in Ramsey, New Jersey. On August 8, 2010, Havens performed at Musikfest 2010 at Foy Hall at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

On March 20, 2012, Havens announced on his Facebook page that he will stop touring after 45 years, due to health concerns.^[15]

Charity work[link]

In addition to performing at charity benefit concerts, Havens formed the Northwind Undersea Institute, an oceanographic children's museum on City Island in The Bronx. The museum led to the creation of The Natural Guard, an organization that educates children about the environment.^[16]

Havens won the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award in Sherborn, Massachusetts on April 12, 1991.^[17]

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Live albums[link]

Compilation albums[link]

Singles[link]

Guest appearances[link]

• A Long Time Comin' by The Electric Flag - Sitar & Percussion (1968)
• Please Don't Touch by Steve Hackett (1978)
• Music and Songs from Starlight Express (1987) - performing "Light at the End of the Tunnel" and the "Starlight Sequence"
• Songs of the Civil War (1991) - "Follow the Drinking Gourd" and "Give Us a Flag"
• OVO by Peter Gabriel (2000) (Soundtrack to the Millennium Dome Show)
• "Freedom" on The Best of The Jammy's Volume One w/ The Mutaytor
• "The Long Road" (Duet with Cliff Eberhardt) on 1990 album The Long Road
• "Gay Cavalier" (Duet with Pino Daniele) on 1983 album Common Ground
• "All That I am Now" on Assembly of Dust's 2009 Some Assembly Required album
• Lifelines Live by Peter, Paul and Mary (1996)
• "El Lugar (The Place)" by Francesco Bruno (1995) where he appears as co-author and interpreter of the song
• Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) by Groove Armada (2001) - "Little by Little" and "Healing"
• Lovebox (Groove Armada) by Groove Armada (2002) - "Hands of Time"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Richie Havens official website
• Richie Havens at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Richie Havens by music critic Michael Wiles of Bmore Live
• Interview with Richie Havens
• College Crier's Richie Havens interview
• 2005 Richie Havens interview on Modern Guitars magazine
• Long Island Music Hall of Fame
• 2008 Interview with Richie Havens
• Richie Havens fan website
• Video interview with Richie Havens by the Transcendent Nation Foundation on the question of "how to save the world"

Mike Rowe
Born	(1962-03-18) March 18, 1962 (age 50) Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Residence	San Francisco, California
Occupation	Television host Narrator, actor, voice over actor, opera singer, activist
Website
http://www.mikeroweWORKS.com

Michael Gregory "Mike" Rowe ( /ˈroʊ/; born March 18, 1962)^[1] is an American media personality best known as the host of the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs. He can also be heard as narrator on a variety of series and has appeared in recurring commercials for Ford Motor Company.

Early life[link]

Rowe was born in Baltimore, Maryland to parents John and Peggy Rowe. Rowe has said in commercials for Dirty Jobs that the show is a tribute to his father and grandfather. Rowe became an Eagle Scout on January 2, 1979 in Troop 16 in Baltimore.^[2] During his service project for Eagle Scout at the Maryland School for the Blind, he read aloud to students, and he cites this as one of the reasons he became interested in narrating and writing.^[2][3] On being an Eagle Scout he said "The Eagle Award is not really meant for people who need to be dragged across the finish line. It's meant for a select few... ."'^[2]

Rowe attended Kenwood Presbyterian Church in Baltimore when he was younger; his parents still regularly attend. Rowe attended Overlea High School, where he excelled in both theater and singing under the tutelage of choir director Freddie King, whom Rowe credits for first interesting him in performing.^[4] An early stutterer, Rowe was able to overcome the handicap while in school.^[5] After graduation from high school, he attended Essex Community College,^[4] and briefly sang with the Chorus of the Chesapeake, which at the time was directed by King. He later graduated from Towson University^[6] with a degree in Communication Studies.^[7]

Rowe sang professionally with the Baltimore Opera.^[8][9] He says about this job:

I joined the opera to get my union card and meet girls. I was a saloon singer, so I went down to the Baltimore Opera and learned an aria and auditioned. I figured I'd do one show and quit. But the girls were everywhere and the truth is, the music was really decent.^[10]

Television career[link]

As host[link]

In the early 1990s Rowe was an on-air host for the shop-at-home TV channel QVC. When interviewed, Rowe relates how he got the job at QVC:

I was in the opera at the time. I walked across the street with a buddy of mine (during a performance) - we're dressed as Vikings and we have a drink. The TV is turned to QVC. ... My buddy bets me $100 I can't get a call back. So ... I crashed the audition and got a job on the spot. I basically turned the whole thing into my own stupid David Letterman show - I made fun of the callers and made fun of the products.^[10]

Rowe claims that QVC fired him three times.^[10] When told in a 2008 episode of Dirty Jobs that the gourds he was working on would be sold via QVC, he stated he was familiar with the corporation and proceeded to ad-lib a sales pitch for them.^[11]

Rowe has hosted Your New Home for WJZ in Baltimore, Worst Case Scenarios for TBS, On-Air TV for American Airlines, The Most for The History Channel, No Relation for FX,^[12] New York Expeditions for PBS, Channel 999 instructional guide for the now defunct PrimeStar satellite television service, and the CD-ROM music trivia game Radio Active (as "Bobby Arpeggio") for now-defunct Sanctuary Woods.

From 2001 to 2005 Rowe hosted Evening Magazine on KPIX-TV in San Francisco. During this time, he appeared in a news segment called "Somebody's Gotta Do It", profiling a number of unpleasant professions; this concept later grew into Dirty Jobs. Rowe's first work with Discovery included a trip to the Valley of the Golden Mummies to host Egypt Week Live!, where he explored ancient tombs live on air with Dr. Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist.

As narrator[link]

In addition to hosting programs, Rowe has an extensive background as a narrator. His work with Discovery Channel includes narrating American Chopper, American Hot Rod, Deadliest Catch, Wild Pacific, and Ghost Lab, as well as other Discovery specials and series such as How the Universe Works, and Syfy's Ghost Hunters. Rowe has hosted the Discovery Channel's annual "Shark Week" in 2006 and 2008, along with hosting the special You Spoof Discovery, an amateur parody video special which poked fun at some of the popular series on the Discovery Channel's lineup.^[13]

On Dirty Jobs, Rowe frequently mocks his seeming omnipresence on Discovery Channel; when a segment on firefighting and salvage was unable to be completed in a single day, he assured his firefighter host that he would "send over the MythBusters ... maybe the American Chopper boys ... [to finish the job]".

Mike Rowe poses for a photo during filming at Skulls Unlimited International.

Rowe was originally tapped to be the on-screen host of the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, a show about crab fishing in the Bering Sea, and shot footage aboard several crab boats in addition to narrating the series. When Dirty Jobs was picked up by Discovery, he was told to choose which show he wanted to appear in on-screen. Rowe claims he was told by Discovery that the shows would air back-to-back on the same night: "We can't have you telling us stories about six dead fishermen on camera and making a fart joke with your arm in a cow's ass".^[14] Rowe chose to host Dirty Jobs and narrate Deadliest Catch; the footage of him on the boats was not used in the series, although he did appear in a season finale of Deadliest Catch, interviewing the boat captains. Rowe hosted a related show about life on the Bering Sea, a 2007 miniseries, After the Catch.

Other narration work by Rowe includes Mystery Diagnosis, Drydock: A Cruise Ship Reborn, Southern Steel, Powertool Drag Racing, Scavengers Rock (Animal Planet), and the opening of Ghost Hunters, a Syfy series from the producers of American Chopper. Additionally, Rowe has done voiceover work for the reality television show The Ultimate Fighter and the NASCAR pre-race show for The 2009 Chase on ESPN.^[15]

On December 21, 2009, Rowe became the announcer on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer.^[16]

Additional appearances[link]

On October 7, 2007 Rowe appeared on Fox's American Dad! as the voice of a meter maid.^[17]

Rowe appeared on an episode of Sesame Street (Season 39) in a segment called "Dirtiest Jobs With Mike Rowe", which aired on October 13, 2008. Rowe visits Sesame Street to find the dirtiest job, which happens to belong to Oscar. Rowe must do all the things Oscar does. His tasks include finding and counting stinky cheese, sorting trash, and giving his pet pig, Spot, a mud bath. To Oscar's chagrin, Rowe does not want to stop, as he is having too much fun.^[18]

Mike Rowe spoke to over 70,000 scouts, leaders, and visitors at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree in Fort AP Hill, Virginia. Rowe, an Eagle Scout, spoke to the crowd about the importance of being physically and mentally clean, but emphasized the need for all scouts to get dirty.^[19]

In 2012, Rowe appeared in an episode of the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing playing the role of Jim Baxter, the brother of Tim Allen's character.

As pitchman[link]

In 1998, Rowe was the television spokesperson for Epic Pharmacy, a Baltimore-area association of independent pharmacies.

Beginning in March 2007, he was featured in several Ford Motor Company F-Series truck commercials, presented in a style similar to Dirty Jobs, including one for Ford Sync.^[20][21] In the summer of 2009, he appeared in advertisements for Ford and Lincoln-Mercury vehicles that used the tagline: "Why Ford. Why Now."^[22]

In 2008, Rowe partnered with W. W. Grainger, a Chicago-based Fortune 500 industrial supply company.

In 2010, Rowe appeared in internet spots for Motorola iDEN combined radios/mobile phones, explaining that the phones were used "by real people, for real work" as they were used for Dirty Jobs-type applications.

In 2010, Rowe partnered with Lee Premium Select Jeans and appeared in television spots wearing jeans that "make my butt look good".

On July 26, 2010, Rowe became the spokesperson for Caterpillar. Rowe will work with dealers and customers "to get a real world perspective on their jobs".^[23] These interactions will be featured at Cat dealers as well as on the Caterpillar website and mikeroweWORKS website.

In 2011, Rowe appeared with his parents in television spots for Viva paper towels.^[24]

Trade activism[link]

On Labor Day 2008, Rowe launched a website, MikeRoweWorks.com, which is focused on the decline in the blue collar trades and the crumbling state of the infrastructure. A trade resource center has been launched and provides information, resources, and forums for people interested in learning about, or pursuing a career in, the trades,^[2] as well as a new blog aggregator for the trades and construction industry called the "Trades Hub", which launched in April 2011.

On September 19, 2010, Mike Rowe and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers started a grassroots campaign called “I Make America”. The campaign aims to create jobs in the manufacturing sector by encouraging infrastructure investment and export agreements. The group argues that this will improve the economy and global competitiveness of the United States.^[25]

Mike Rowe has contributed video content to The Alabama Construction Recruitment Institute's trade-worker recruiting campaign GoBuildAlabama.com, culminating in an Iron Bowl-themed commercial broadcast on local CBS affiliates during Thanksgiving weekend 2010.^[26]

In May 2011, Rowe testified on the issue before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.^[27][28]

Personal life[link]

Rowe currently resides in San Francisco, California.^[29]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mike Rowe

• Mike Rowe's official website
• Mike Rowe at the Internet Movie Database
• Mike Rowe #4 on Maxim.com's 2007 list of Top Dudeliest Dudes
• Mike Rowe presenting at the 2008 EG conference
• Discovery, Realization and Lamb Castration at The Entertainment Gathering, December 2008

Mike Seeger
Born	(1933-08-15)August 15, 1933
Origin	New York City, USA
Died	August 7, 2009(2009-08-07) (aged 75) Lexington, Virginia, United States
Genres	Old-time, folk
Occupations	musician, singer
Instruments	autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, pan pipes, shaker, acoustic bass[disambiguation needed ]
Labels	Folkways, Rounder, Arhoolie, Argo, Greenhays, 5-String Productions, Appalseed
Associated acts	New Lost City Ramblers, Strange Creek Singers, Peggy Seeger

Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933 – August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, and pan pipes.^[1][2] Seeger, a half-brother of Pete Seeger, produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed in more than 40 other recordings. He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him.^[3]

Family and early life[link]

Seeger was born in New York and grew up in Maryland and Washington D.C. His father, Charles Louis Seeger Jr., was a composer and pioneering ethnomusicologist, investigating both American folk and non-Western music. His mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was a composer.^[4] His eldest half-brother, Charles Seeger III, was a radio astronomer, and his next older half-brother, John Seeger, taught for years at the Dalton School in Manhattan. His next older half brother is Pete Seeger. His uncle, Alan Seeger, a poet, was killed during the First World War. His sister Peggy Seeger, also a well-known folk performer, was married for many years to British folk singer Ewan MacColl. His sister, singer Penny Seeger, married John Cohen, a member of Mike's musical group, New Lost City Ramblers.^[5] Seeger was a self-taught musician who began playing stringed instruments at the age of 18. He also sang Sacred Harp with Ewan and Calum MacColl.

The family moved to Washington D.C. in 1936 after his father's appointment to the music division of the Resettlement Administration. While in Washington D.C., Ruth Seeger worked closely with John and Alan Lomax at the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress to preserve and teach American folk music. Ruth Seeger's arrangements and interpretations of American Traditional folk songs in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s are well regarded.^{[citation needed]}

Musical career[link]

At about the age of 20, Seeger began collecting songs by traditional musicians on a tape recorder.^[1] Folk musicians such as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, John Jacob Niles, and others were frequent guests in the Seeger home.^[1]

In 1958 he co-founded the New Lost City Ramblers, an old-time string band in New York City, during the Folk Revival. The other founding members included John Cohen and Tom Paley. Paley later left the group and was replaced by Tracy Schwarz. The New Lost City Ramblers directly influenced countless musicians in subsequent years. The Ramblers distinguished themselves by focusing on the traditional playing styles they heard on old 78rpm records of musicians recorded during the 1920s and 1930s. Tracy was also in Mike's other band, Strange Creek Singers. So was Mike's former wife, Alice Gerrard. She was Alice Seeger in that band.

Seeger received six Grammy nominations and was the recipient of four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.^[1] His influence on the folk scene was described by Bob Dylan in his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One. He was a popular presenter and performer at traditional music gatherings such as Breakin' Up Winter.

Eight days before his 76th birthday, Seeger died at his home in Lexington, Virginia on August 7, 2009, after stopping cancer treatment.^[2][6]

Discography[link]

• Old Time Country Music (Smithsonian Folkways) (1962)
• Mike Seeger (Vanguard) (1964)
• Tipple, Loom & Rail (Smithsonian Folkways) (1965)
• Mike and Peggy Seeger (Argo) (1966)
• Strange Creek Singers (Arhoolie) (1968)
• Music From True Vine (Mercury) (1972)
• The Second Annual Farewell Reunion (Mercury) (1973)
• American Folk Songs for Children (Rounder) (1977)
• Alice Gerrard and Mike Seeger (Greenhays) (1980)
• Fresh Oldtime String Band (Rounder) (1988)
• American Folk Songs for Christmas (Rounder) (1989)
• Solo: Old Time Music (Rounder) (1991)
• Animal Folk Songs for Children (Rounder) (1992)
• Third Annual Farewell Reunion (Rounder) (1994)
• Way Down in North Carolina (w/ Paul Brown) (Rounder) (1996)
• Southern Banjo Sounds (Smithsonian Folkways) (1998)
• Retrograss (w/ John Hartford and David Grisman) (Acoustic Disc) (1999)
• True Vine (Smithsonian Folkways) (2003)
• Early Southern Guitar Sounds (Smithsonian Folkways) (2007)
• Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Rounder) (2007)
• Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy (Nonesuch) (2007)
• Talking Feet (Book) Compiled with dancer Ruth Pershing (Consignment) (2007)
• Talking Feet (DVD) (Smithsonian Folkways) (2007)
• Bowling Green (w/ Alice Gerrard) (5-String Productions) (2008) (Re-release of Greenhays released in 1980)
• Fly Down Little Bird (Appalseed) (2011)

Recordings with the New Lost City Ramblers[link]

• New Lost City Ramblers (Smithsonian Folkways) (1958)
• Old Timey Songs for Children (Smithsonian Folkways) (1959)
• Songs for the Depression (Smithsonian Folkways) (1959)
• New Lost City Ramblers - Vol. 2 (Smithsonian Folkways) (1960)
• New Lost City Ramblers - Vol. 3 (Smithsonian Folkways) (1961)
• New Lost City Ramblers (Smithsonian Folkways) (1961)
• New Lost City Ramblers - Vol. 4 (Smithsonian Folkways) (1962)
• American Moonshine and Prohibition Songs (Smithsonian Folkways) (1962)
• New Lost City Ramblers - Vol. 5 (Smithsonian Folkways) (1963)
• Gone to the Country (Smithsonian Folkways) (1963)
• String Band Instrumentals (Smithsonian Folkways) (1964)
• Rural Delivery No. 1 (Smithsonian Folkways) (1964)
• Modern Times (Smithsonian Folkways) (1968)
• New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy (Smithsonian Folkways) (1968)
• Remembrance of Things to Come (Smithsonian Folkways) (1973)
• On the Great Divide (Smithsonian Folkways) (1975)
• Earth is Earth (Smithsonian Folkways) (1978)
• Tom Paley, John Cohen, Mike Seeger Sing Songs of the New Lost City Ramblers (Smithsonian Folkways) (1978)
• 20th Anniversary Concert, with Elizabeth Cotten, Highwoods String Band, Pete Seeger & the Green Grass Cloggers (FLYING FISH (Rounder)) (1978)
• The Early Years, 1958-1962 (Smithsonian Folkways) (1991)
• Out Standing in their Field: The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol 2, 1963-1973 (Smithsonian Folkways) (1993)
• There Ain't No Way Out (Smithsonian Folkways) (1997)
• 40 Years of Concert Recordings (Rounder) (2001)
• 50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go? (Smithsonian Folkways) (2008)

Selected Films featuring Mike Seeger[link]

• "Homemade American Music"(1980) by Yasha Aginsky
• "Always Been a Rambler" (2009) by Yasha Aginsky

References[link]

External links[link]

• “Last Known Interview," by Elizabeth Bissette, September 18, 2008, CountryMusicPride.com
• "Mike Seeger Dead At 75"
• "Silent Strings: Mike Seeger Loses Battle with Cancer" by Bob Cherry, August 8, 2009, Cybergrass.com.
• "Mike Seeger to Hospice Care" John Lawless, July 29, 2009, BluegrassToday.com
• Mike Seeger Folk Revivalist and Historian Featured artist biographical essay on Smithsonian Global Sound site, 2007. Retrieved August 2009.
• How Can I Keep From Singing?: A Seeger Family Tribute, Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, March 2007 symposium and concert. All events are available as webcasts via the site. Retrieved August 25, 2009.
• 2007 Video released by Smithsonian July 2009 - Mike Seeger discusses & plays "Walking Boss"
• Official site
• Internet radio interview with Mike Seeger, he discusses Elizabeth Cotten, Dock Boggs, Henry Thomas, Alan Lomax, the current state of folk music and plays gourd banjo and jaw harp live on air
• new (2009) documentary film about the New Lost City Ramblers, with Mike Seeger, John Cohen, Tracy Schwarz and others
• Mike Seeger - Daily Telegraph obituary
• UK online memorial
• Homemade American Music (1980) - a documentary film by Yasha Aginsky with Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard, Tommy Jarrell, Roscoe Holcomb, Lily May Ledford, Elizabeth Cotten, and more