When Bob Dylan turned his back on protest music and traditional folk, he burned a lot of bridges; his friendship with Pete Seeger was one of them.

The Bob Dylan film forefronts a conflict between acoustic and electric music, while ignoring how the Vietnam War divided folk ...

After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.

Seeger was shaped by the 1930s, Baez by the 1960s, and both, like Dylan, had a moment of decision that defined their allegiances.

I listened to Pete Seeger records as much as I listened to Bob Dylan records when I was a teenager. And I played banjo, inspired by, as a combo, Pete and Steve Martin, of course, who are both high ...

Legendary musician Bob Dylan wasn’t selling communism, Pete Seeger was. None of this is evident in "A Complete Unknown." ...

Midway through the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Dylan has an angry confrontation with his girlfriend, Sylvia Russo, about why he never makes any reference to his past. “People make up ...

The real-life people who show up in the movie A Complete Unknown, about young Bob Dylan, inspired a look at Pete Seeger's appearance on CBC-TV in 1965.

GROSS: We're listening to the interview I recorded with Pete Seeger in 1984. In the new Bob Dylan biopic, Seeger is portrayed by Edward Norton. We'll hear more of my interview with Seeger after a ...

Pete Seeger sang in my mother’s camps when she was in the Catskills in her youth. I listened to Pete Seeger records as much as I listened to Bob Dylan records when I was a teenager.

The folk singer, who died in 2014, was famous for his songs about working people, unions and social justice. In this 1984 interview, Seeger cited Woody Guthrie as one his most important influences.

GROSS: We're listening to the interview I recorded with Pete Seeger in 1984. In the new Bob Dylan biopic, Seeger is portrayed by Edward Norton. We'll hear more of my interview with Seeger after a ...