Mike Seeger
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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. 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.
Family and early life
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. 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 was 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. 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.
Seeger, Mike Filmography
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2012, role: producer
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: miscellaneous crew
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2009, role: composer
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2009, role: actor
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2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1980, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1967, role: actor
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1960, role: composer
Mike Seeger
ALBUMS
- Bowling Green released: 2008
- Early Southern Guitar Sounds released: 2007
- Southern Banjo Sounds released: 1998
- Animal Folk Songs For Children released: 1992
- Solo: Oldtime Country Music released: 1991
- Fresh Oldtime String Band Music released: 1988
- Retrograss released:
- American Folk Songs For Christmas released:
Bowling Green
Released 2008- Bowling Green
- St. Louis Blues
- Fugitive's Lament
- Oh Blue
- Old Bunch of Keys
- Sugar Baby
- Dear Companion
- Doggin' in the U.S. Mail
- Quiero decir gracias
- Love Was the Price
- Needmore
- Pretty Polly
- Gone to View That Land
- New Freedom March
- In My Dear Old Southern Home
- Coal Miner's Blues
- Victory Rag
- Black Waters
- Private John Q
- Buckdancer's Choice
- Sunny Side of Life
- You Done Me Wrong
- The Death of Queen Jane
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- Sweet Sunny South
- Flatwoods
Early Southern Guitar Sounds
Released 2007- Wildwood Flower
- Old Chisholm Trail
- Spanish Fandango
- Shakin' the Pines in the Holler
- Weary Lonesome Blues
- White Oak Mountain
- I'm Crazy Over You
- Can't Get a Letter From Home
- Steel Guitar Rag
- Smoketown Strut
- Big Kid's Barroom
- Fishing Blues
- After All Has Been Said and Done
- Joe Lee's Tune
- Carroll County Blues
- Birmingham Tickle
- Worried Blues
- Kenny Wagner's Surrender
- Arizona
- Pearly Dew
- Risselty Rosselty
- Johnny Doyle
- Black Jack David
- John Henry
- Buck Dancer's Choice
- Riley And Spencer
- When This World Comes to an End
- Leaning On The Everlasting Arm
Southern Banjo Sounds
Released 1998- Soon in the Morning Babe
- Josh Thomas’s Roustabout
- Jim Crack Corn
- Darling Cora
- Devil’s Dream
- Little Birdie
- Around the World
- Whoopin’ Up Cattle
- Flop Eared Mule
- Lost Gander
- The Sailor and the Soldier
- American Spanish Fandango
- Got No Silver Nor Gold Blues
- We’re Up Against It Now
- That’s What the Old Bachelor’s Are Made Of
- The Last of Callahan
- Lady Gay
- Down South Blues
- Last Night When My Willie Come Home
- Wabash Blues
- Bright Sunny South
- Roll on John
- Needlecase
- Come My Little Pink
- Battle in the Horseshoe
- I’m Head Over Heels in Love
Animal Folk Songs For Children
Released 1992- Raccoon and Possum
- Mister Rabbit
- Peep Squirrel
- A Squirrel Is a Pretty Thing
- Cross-Eyed Gopher
- Muskrat
- Old Ground Hog
- Snake Baked a Hoecake
- Mole in the Ground
- Little Dog Named Right
- Little Lap Dog Lullabye
- Little Brown Dog
- Oh, Blue
- Old Fox
- The Deer Song
- And We Hunted and We Hunted
- The Gray Goose
- Old Lady Goose
- The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster Laid the Egg
- My Old Hen's a Good Old Hen
- Turkey Song
- Shake That Little Foot, Dinah-O
- There Was an Old Frog
- Little Pig
- The Old Sow
- The Little Black Bull
- The Old Cow Died
- Black Sheep, Black Sheep
- The Big Sheep
Solo: Oldtime Country Music
Released 1991- Tennessee Dog
- Ground Hog
- Roustabout
- Sallie Gooden
- The Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train
- Shaking the Pines in the Holler
- Dog & Gun
- Candy Girl
- Tucker's Barn
- Wind & Rain
- Fare You Well, Green Fields
- Poor Indian
- We're Stole and Sold From Africa
- Rockbridge Holler
- Quill Ditty
- Rolling & Tumbling Blues
- Blue Tail Fly
- Prairie Ronde Waltz
American Folk Songs For Christmas
- Stars in the Heaven
- Oh, Watch the Stars
- Great Big Stars
- Shine Like a Star in the Morning
- Bright Morning Stars Are Rising
- Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow
- Shepherd, Shepherd
- Don’t You Hear the Lambs A’Crying
- Found My Lost Sheep
- Look Away to Bethlehem
- How Many Miles to Bethlehem
- Jehovah Hallelujah
- Joseph and Mary
- A Virgin Most Pure
- Baby Born Today
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Shepherds, Rejoice
- The New Born Baby
- Oh, Mary and the Baby
- Star in the East
- Babe of Bethlehem
- Child of God
- Cradle Hymn
- Ain’t That A’Rocking All Night
- Sing a Lamb
- Mary, What You Going to Name That Pretty Little Baby
- Sing Hallelu
- Mary Had a Baby
Born: 1933-08-15
Died: 2009-08-07
