SEEGER SESSIONS

When my brother and I were youngins, my dad would take us to upstate NY every year for the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. I didnt give a fuck where it was because it had this sweet fucking ICE PALACE with a slide. To prepare for the six hour drive we would fill a couple shoe boxes with cassette tapes. My brother's cassettes: Nirvana, Blind Melon, Def Leppard, Danzig. Mine: Weird Al Yankovic, The Animaniacs soundtrack, Phil Collins (pretty sure Phil was a hand-me-down from my brother). Nothing we played over our walkmen however could keep us from giving in to what my father would inevitably play on the car stereo; a Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie live album titled "Precious Friend". I was never sure why this became the tradition, but we genuinely loved those songs. I've been wanting to cover a Pete song for a while. Heres one from that album.

PRECIOUS FRIEND YOU WILL BE THERE


Pete, "Brother Kirk", and Big Bird