In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost ...

Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...

Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.

Even though A Complete Unknown glosses over Pete Seeger's trial, the true story of the FBI investigation and Congress hearing ...

Toward the end of A Complete Unknown, a good biopic about Bob Dylan that opened on Christmas, there is a key scene in which ...

I must heartily disagree with my friend Amy Worden’s recent column on Pete Seeger’s depiction in the Bob Dylan film, “A ...

Film director James Mangold also tells  Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career ...

Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...

Edward Norton as Pete Seeger in "A Complete Unknown." (Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) ...

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.

It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...