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ALSO: Folk singer Mike Seeger plays Kirkland House Sunday, sponsored by the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston...Every Monday saxophonist and all-around reed-player John Payne stirs up some fine jazz at the Oxford Ale House. Payne almost stole the show two Springs ago from Bonnie Raitt and Peter Johnson in a Sanders Theater free concert. He's one of the great sidemen on Raitt's Give It Up album...
...MIKE SEEGER. Sun., Sept. 30 at 8 p.m., Kirkland House...
...about a place he'd visited or a girl he'd loved. But he'd always get back to toughness: ["Them big city women sure do make me tried. Got a handful of gimmee. Got a mouthful of much obliged."]. He didn't sing social protest songs like Pete Seeger or Woody Guthrie. He was scornful of things in general...
Unlike Pete Seeger, Harvard drop-out with social conscience, Rush, Harvard graduate with Urge for Going, wanted to make it. He didn't want to play in little bars all his life. Like many folk musicians who came out of the folk boom of the sixties, he was torn between the folk art -- which except in times of boom doesn't sell -- and some kind of popular success. He chose the latter, although he did some good singing in the process...
...overlong chronology of the '60s. But throughout there's a healthy sense that music matters even when it seems not to: the CIO may have stopped singing for awhile, but "Which Side Are You On?" helped Boston University's students stop a Marine recruiter only last month. Like fireflies, Seeger says, such songs light up the night...