![]() ![]() ![]() Listen to them synchronize melody and rhythm on the “Ballad of Accounting.” It’s an anthemic tune about taking ethical stock of one’s life, questions of moral pungency few bother with any more:ĭid you stand there in the traces and let ‘em feed you lies?ĭid you trail along behind them wearing blinkers on your eyes?ĭid you kiss the foot that kicked you, did you thank them for their scorn?ĭid you ask for their forgiveness for the act of being born? Together, though, their alloy is like bronze. Their voices were set–MacColl, the tufted wobble of an English dockworker, Seeger, the wren-like lilt of an Appalachian schoolgirl. They fell in love in 1956–she, 21, newly arrived in London from Maryland to play the five-string banjo on a television show he a songwriter, actor, and communist, English-born of Scottish parents, twice her age (and married), whose balladry (“Dirty Old Town,” “My Old Man“) had helped ignite the British Folk Revival, ablaze in cellar club, busking corner, and studio single takes. Among the most artful duos to lift their voices in the cause and community of folk music are the singers Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl. ![]()
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