Pete Seeger's Words Prove To Be Prophetic

New York, NY. (Top 40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - When he wrote "Waist Deep In The Big Muddy" and "Song Of The World's Last Whale" over 35 years ago, Pete Seeger had no idea how prophetic and relevant his words would be today. The two songs are included on Seeger's latest album 'At 89,' out September 30 on Appleseed Recordings. Sadly, they still relate to our world today.

"Waist Deep In The Big Muddy," originally written in 1967 as an allegory of US involvement in the Vietnam War, is easily reinterpreted by Seeger to comment on the current US involvement in Iraq. A tale of a military platoon asked to cross a river that's too deep and treacherous despite trying to warn their commander of the danger ahead, it would seem that the US is now waist deep in a whole new Big Muddy.

In 1972 Seeger wrote "Song of the World's Last Whale," an imagined conversation with an endangered whale in which the great whale warns that the poaching and environmental neglect that could cost him his existence will "happen to you also without fail." As environmental dangers like global warming continue to ravage the Earth, the whale's warning was a prescient tale of the great dangers our world faces today.

'At 89' was recorded in Seeger's beloved Hudson River Valley in New York State, with friends, singers and musicians from the area. It's an intimate look at where Seeger, one of the most important musicians and activists of the last century and a worldwide symbol of human decency, is today.