Which Side Are You On? (Acrobat, 2003)
The Essential Pete Seeger (Sony, 2005) 
"Which Side Are You On?"
"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
"Oh, Had I a Golden Thread
Pete spent two years studying Journalism at Harvard University before dropping out to perform music. During the late 1930s, he met Woody Guthrie at a benefit concert for migrant workers, which was inspired by the novel Grapes of Wrath.
The two found they had plenty in common both musically and ideologically, and they soon formed a group that came to be known famously as the Almanac Singers.
Pete was also a founding member of the Weavers, who enjoyed extensive success until being blacklisted for being Communists during the McCarthy Era. Seeger himself refused to testify in the McCarthy hearings, citing that it would violate his first ammendment rights.
In the late 1950s, Seeger began his solo career. He became well-known as a topical songwriter and activist folksinger. He reworked the African-American spiritual to popularize "We Shall Overcome," and also penned "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "If I Had a Hammer," which have all become anthems for peace movements and civil rights.
Seeger has released dozens of records during the course of his extensive and inspiring career, and has received the Kennedy Center Honor Award, National Medal of Arts, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. He continues to perform with his grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger.


