01.17.13
Deep inna hart of WhiteManistan
“Not a Terrorist,” reads the T-shirt.
I met Pete Seeger a couple times, both incidences for interviews on American folk music, its history and Woody Guthrie. Seeger was just as you would imagine he was if you ever saw or listened to his performance of “This Land is Your Land.”
I’m sure he’d be be rendered speechless by cheers for a song called “Arm Yourselves,” played in a coffee house.
A colleague tipped me to the venue, Brave New Books. A reading of reviews on Yelp is informative.