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'''Mike Seeger''' (August 15, 1933{{spaced ndash}}August 7, 2009) was an American [[folk music]]ian and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who mainly played [[autoharp]], [[banjo]], [[fiddle]], [[Appalachian dulcimer|dulcimer]], guitar, [[harmonica]], [[mandolin]], [[dobro]], [[Jew's harp|jaw harp]], and [[Pan flute|pan pipes]].<ref name="Smithsonian-Seeger-Revivalist-2007"/><ref name="NPR-Brown-Cleared Paths-2009-08-08"/> Seeger, a half-brother of [[Pete Seeger]], produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed in more than 40 other recordings. He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him.<ref name="NEA-National Heritage Fellowships-2009">{{cite web|work=National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellowships|title=Mike Seeger: Musician, Cultural Scholar, and Advocate|url=http://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=2009_10|quote=Bess Lomax Hawes NEA National Heritage Fellowship|publisher=National Endowment for the Arts|year=2009|access-date=August 8, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602034751/http://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=2009_10|archive-date=June 2, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref> He was posthumously inducted into the [[International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame]] in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ibma.org/awards-by-year/ |title=Recipient History |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2023 |website=International Bluegrass Music Association |access-date=February 25, 2024}}</ref>
==Early life==
Seeger was born in New York and grew up in Maryland and Washington D.C. His father, [[Charles Louis Seeger|Charles Louis Seeger Jr.]], was a composer and pioneering [[ethnomusicologist]], investigating both American folk and non-Western music. His mother, [[Ruth Crawford Seeger]], was a composer.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990CE6D81E31E233A2575AC1A9649D946096D6CF 1911 ''New York Times'' wedding announcement for Charles Louis Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger].</ref> His eldest half-brother, Charles Seeger III, was a radio astronomer, and his next older half-brother, John Seeger, taught for years at the [[Dalton School]] in Manhattan. His next older half brother was [[Pete Seeger]]. His uncle, [[Alan Seeger]], the poet who wrote "I have a rendezvous with Death", was killed during the [[First World War]]. Seeger was a self-taught musician who began playing stringed instruments at the age of 18. He also sang [[Sacred Harp]] with British folk singer [[Ewan MacColl]] and his son, Calum. Seeger's sister [[Peggy Seeger]], also a well-known folk performer, married MacColl, and his sister Penny wed [[John Cohen (musician)|John Cohen]], a member of Mike's musical group, [[New Lost City Ramblers]].<ref>[http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-18-97/austin_music_feature3.html A Vision Shared, Austin Chronicle, weeklywire.com, 18 August 1997]. Retrieved on May 2, 2009.</ref>
[[Seeger#Seeger family|The family]] moved to Washington D.C. in 1936 after his father's appointment to the music division of the [[Resettlement Administration]]. While in Washington D.C., Ruth Seeger worked closely with [[John Lomax|John]] and [[Alan Lomax]] at the Archive of American Folk Song at the [[Library of Congress]] to preserve and teach American folk music. Ruth Seeger's arrangements and interpretations of American Traditional folk songs in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s are well regarded.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}
==Musical career==
At about the age of 20, Mike Seeger began collecting songs by traditional musicians on a tape recorder.<ref name = "Smithsonian-Seeger-Revivalist-2007"/> Folk musicians such as [[Lead Belly]], [[Woody Guthrie]], [[John Jacob Niles]], and others were frequent guests in the Seeger home.<ref name="Smithsonian-Seeger-Revivalist-2007">{{cite news|url=http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/feature_21A.aspx |title=Mike Seeger: American folk revivalist and historian |year=2007 |work=Smithsonian Global Sound |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=August 8, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523015500/http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/feature_21A.aspx |archive-date=May 23, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=True Vine {{!}} Smithsonian Folkways|url=http://www.folkways.si.edu/mike-seeger/true-vine/old-time/music/album/smithsonian|website=Smithsonian Folkways Recordings|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>
In 1958 he co-founded the [[New Lost City Ramblers]], an [[Old-time music|old-time]] [[String band (American music)|string band]] in New York City, during the [[Roots revival|Folk Revival]]. The other founding members included [[John Cohen (musician)|John Cohen]] and [[Tom Paley]]. Paley later left the group in 1962<ref>{{citation | title = The Guinness Who's Who of Folk Music | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-85112-741-X| last1 = Larkin | first1 = Colin | publisher = Guinness }}</ref> and was replaced by [[Tracy Schwarz]]. The New Lost City Ramblers directly influenced countless musicians in subsequent years. The Ramblers distinguished themselves by focusing on the traditional playing styles they heard on old [[78rpm]] records of musicians recorded during the 1920s and 1930s. Tracy was also in Mike's other band, Strange Creek Singers. So was Mike's former wife, [[Alice Gerrard]]. She was Alice Seeger in that band and sang and played guitar in it. The other people in Strange Creek Singers were bass player and singer [[Hazel Dickens]] and banjo player Lamar Grier. Mike sang and played guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, autoharp, and harmonica in the band.
{{quote box|quote="Seeger sings with spunk and authenticity, plays eight acoustic instruments, and taps his foot pretty good, and even if you (and I) can't dance to it, I guarantee you somebody can."|source=—''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981)<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|access-date=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>|width=24%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
Seeger received six Grammy nominations and was the recipient of four grants from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]],<ref name = "Smithsonian-Seeger-Revivalist-2007"/> including a 2009 [[National Heritage Fellowship]], which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/year/2009 |title=NEA National Heritage Fellowships 2009 |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=www.arts.gov |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928023511/https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/year/2009 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His influence on the folk scene was described by [[Bob Dylan]] in his autobiography, ''[[Chronicles: Volume One]]''. He was a popular presenter and performer at traditional music gatherings such as [[Breakin' Up Winter]].
Eight days before his 76th birthday, Mike Seeger died at his home in [[Lexington, Virginia]], on August 7, 2009, after stopping cancer treatment.<ref name="NPR-Brown-Cleared Paths-2009-08-08">
{{cite news|title=Mike Seeger Cleared Paths, Showed Us The Way|url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111693752|work = NPR Music|first=Paul|last= Brown|publisher=National Public Radio|date=August 8, 2009|access-date=August 9, 2009}}
</ref><ref name="NPR-Brown-Seeger Dead-2009-08-08" >
{{cite news|title=Folk Music's Mike Seeger Dead|url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111693752|work = NPR Music|first=Paul|last= Brown|publisher= National Public Radio|date=August 8, 2009|access-date=August 9, 2009}}</ref>
The Mike Seeger Collection, which includes original sound and video recordings by Mike Seeger, is located in the [[Southern Folklife Collection]] of the Wilson Library of the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20009/|title=Mike Seeger Collection, 1923-2010 (bulk 1955-2002)|website=finding-aids.lib.unc.edu|access-date=2017-11-06}}</ref>
==Discography==
* ''Old Time Country Music'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1962)
* ''Mike Seeger'' (Vanguard) (1964) <ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mike-seeger-mw0002392895 |label=Mike Seeger{{snd}}Mike Seeger |first=Richie |last=Unterberger |access-date=September 14, 2015 }}</ref>
* ''Tipple, Loom & Rail'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1965)
* ''Mike and Peggy Seeger'' (Argo) (1966)
* ''Mike and Alice Seeger in Concert'' (King (JP)) (1971)
* ''Music From True Vine'' (Mercury) (1972)
* ''Berkeley Farms'' (Folkways) (1972)
* ''The Second Annual Farewell Reunion'' (Mercury) (1973)
* ''American Folk Songs for Children'' (Rounder) (1977)
* ''[[Alice Gerrard]] and Mike Seeger'' (Greenhays) (1980)
* ''Fresh Oldtime String Band Music'' (Rounder) (1988)
* ''American Folk Songs for Christmas'' (Rounder) (1989)
* ''Solo: Oldtime Country Music'' (Rounder) (1991)
* ''Animal Folk Songs for Children'' (Rounder) (1992)
* ''Third Annual Farewell Reunion'' (Rounder) (1994)
* ''Way Down in North Carolina'' ''(w/ Paul Brown)'' (Rounder) (1996)
* ''Southern Banjo Sounds'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1998)
* ''[[Retrograss]]'' ''(w/ [[John Hartford]] and [[David Grisman]])'' ([[Acoustic Disc]]) (1999)
* ''True Vine'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (2003)
* ''Early Southern Guitar Sounds'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (2007)
* [[Robert Plant]] and [[Alison Krauss]] – ''[[Raising Sand]]'' (Rounder) (2007)
* [[Ry Cooder]] – ''[[My Name Is Buddy]]'' (Nonesuch) (2007)
* ''Talking Feet (Book) Compiled with dancer Ruth Pershing'' (Consignment) (2007)
* ''Talking Feet (DVD)'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (2007)
* ''Bowling Green'' ''(w/ [[Alice Gerrard]])'' (5-String Productions) (2008) (Re-release of Greenhays released in 1980)
* ''Fly Down Little Bird'' (Appalseed) (2011)
===Recordings with the New Lost City Ramblers===
* ''New Lost City Ramblers'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1958)
* ''Old Timey Songs for Children'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1959)
* ''Songs for the Depression'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1959)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers – Vol. 2'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1960)
* ''Newport Folk Festival, 1960, Vol. 1'' (Vanguard - VRS 9083) (1960)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers – Vol. 3'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1961)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1961)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers – Vol. 4'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1962)
* ''American Moonshine and Prohibition Songs'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1962)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers – Vol. 5'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1963)
* ''Gone to the Country'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1963)
* ''String Band Instrumentals'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1964)
* ''Rural Delivery No. 1'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1964)
* ''Modern Times'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1968)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1968)
* ''Remembrance of Things to Come'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1973)
* ''On the Great Divide'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1975)
* ''Earth is Earth'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1978)
* ''[[Tom Paley]], [[John Cohen (musician)|John Cohen]], Mike Seeger Sing Songs of the New Lost City Ramblers'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1978)
* ''20th Anniversary Concert, with [[Elizabeth Cotten]], Highwoods String Band, Pete Seeger & the Green Grass Cloggers'' (FLYING FISH (Rounder)) (1978)
* ''The Early Years, 1958–1962'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1991)
* ''Out Standing in their Field: The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol 2, 1963–1973'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1993)
* ''There Ain't No Way Out'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1997)
* ''40 Years of Concert Recordings'' (Rounder) (2001)
* ''50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (2008)
===Strange Creek Singers===
* ''Strange Creek Singers'' (him, [[Alice Gerrard]], [[Hazel Dickens]], [[Tracy Schwarz]], and Lamar Grier) (Arhoolie) (1972)
==Selected films featuring Mike Seeger==
* ''Homemade American Music'' (1980) by Yasha Aginsky
* ''Always Been a Rambler'' (2009) by Yasha Aginsky
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190726185241/http://mikeseeger.info/ Official site]
* {{discogs artist|Mike Seeger}}
* {{IMDb name|1182412}}
{{International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame}}
{{Pete Seeger}}
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'''Mike Seeger''' (August 15, 1933{{spaced ndash}}August 7, 2009) was an American [[folk music]]ian and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who mainly played [[autoharp]], [[banjo]], [[fiddle]], [[Appalachian dulcimer|dulcimer]], guitar, [[harmonica]], [[mandolin]], [[dobro]], [[Jew's harp|jaw harp]], and [[Pan flute|pan pipes]].<ref name="Smithsonian-Seeger-Revivalist-2007"/><ref name="NPR-Brown-Cleared Paths-2009-08-08"/> Seeger, a half-brother of [[Pete Seeger]], produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed in more than 40 other recordings. He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him.<ref name="NEA-National Heritage Fellowships-2009">{{cite web|work=National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellowships|title=Mike Seeger: Musician, Cultural Scholar, and Advocate|url=http://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=2009_10|quote=Bess Lomax Hawes NEA National Heritage Fellowship|publisher=National Endowment for the Arts|year=2009|access-date=August 8, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602034751/http://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=2009_10|archive-date=June 2, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref> He was posthumously inducted into the [[International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame]] in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ibma.org/awards-by-year/ |title=Recipient History |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2023 |website=International Bluegrass Music Association |access-date=February 25, 2024}}</ref>
==Early life==
Seeger was born in New York and grew up in Maryland and Washington D.C. His father, [[Charles Louis Seeger|Charles Louis Seeger Jr.]], was a composer and pioneering [[ethnomusicologist]], investigating both American folk and non-Western music. His mother, [[Ruth Crawford Seeger]], was a composer.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990CE6D81E31E233A2575AC1A9649D946096D6CF 1911 ''New York Times'' wedding announcement for Charles Louis Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger].</ref> His eldest half-brother, Charles Seeger III, was a radio astronomer, and his next older half-brother, John Seeger, taught for years at the [[Dalton School]] in Manhattan. His next older half brother was [[Pete Seeger]]. His uncle, [[Alan Seeger]], the poet who wrote "I have a rendezvous with Death", was killed during the [[First World War]]. Seeger was a self-taught musician who began playing stringed instruments at the age of 18. He also sang [[Sacred Harp]] with British folk singer [[Ewan MacColl]] and his son, Calum. Seeger's sister [[Peggy Seeger]], also a well-known folk performer, married MacColl, and his sister Penny wed [[John Cohen (musician)|John Cohen]], a member of Mike's musical group, [[New Lost City Ramblers]].<ref>[http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-18-97/austin_music_feature3.html A Vision Shared, Austin Chronicle, weeklywire.com, 18 August 1997]. Retrieved on May 2, 2009.</ref>
[[Seeger#Seeger family|The family]] moved to Washington D.C. in 1936 after his father's appointment to the music division of the [[Resettlement Administration]]. While in Washington D.C., Ruth Seeger worked closely with [[John Lomax|John]] and [[Alan Lomax]] at the Archive of American Folk Song at the [[Library of Congress]] to preserve and teach American folk music. Ruth Seeger's arrangements and interpretations of American Traditional folk songs in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s are well regarded.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}
==Musical career==
At about the age of 20, Mike Seeger began collecting songs by traditional musicians on a tape recorder.<ref name = "Smithsonian-Seeger-Revivalist-2007"/> Folk musicians such as [[Lead Belly]], [[Woody Guthrie]], [[John Jacob Niles]], and others were frequent guests in the Seeger home.<ref name="Smithsonian-Seeger-Revivalist-2007">{{cite news|url=http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/feature_21A.aspx |title=Mike Seeger: American folk revivalist and historian |year=2007 |work=Smithsonian Global Sound |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=August 8, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523015500/http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/feature_21A.aspx |archive-date=May 23, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=True Vine {{!}} Smithsonian Folkways|url=http://www.folkways.si.edu/mike-seeger/true-vine/old-time/music/album/smithsonian|website=Smithsonian Folkways Recordings|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>
In 1958 he co-founded the [[New Lost City Ramblers]], an [[Old-time music|old-time]] [[String band (American music)|string band]] in New York City, during the [[Roots revival|Folk Revival]]. The other founding members included [[John Cohen (musician)|John Cohen]] and [[Tom Paley]]. Paley later left the group in 1962<ref>{{citation | title = The Guinness Who's Who of Folk Music | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-85112-741-X| last1 = Larkin | first1 = Colin | publisher = Guinness }}</ref> and was replaced by [[Tracy Schwarz]]. The New Lost City Ramblers directly influenced countless musicians in subsequent years. The Ramblers distinguished themselves by focusing on the traditional playing styles they heard on old [[78rpm]] records of musicians recorded during the 1920s and 1930s. Tracy was also in Mike's other band, Strange Creek Singers. So was Mike's former wife, [[Alice Gerrard]]. She was Alice Seeger in that band and sang and played guitar in it. The other people in Strange Creek Singers were bass player and singer [[Hazel Dickens]] and banjo player Lamar Grier. Mike sang and played guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, autoharp, and harmonica in the band.
{{quote box|quote="Seeger sings with spunk and authenticity, plays eight acoustic instruments, and taps his foot pretty good, and even if you (and I) can't dance to it, I guarantee you somebody can."|source=—''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981)<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: S|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=S&bk=70|access-date=March 12, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>|width=24%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
Seeger received six Grammy nominations and was the recipient of four grants from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]],<ref name = "Smithsonian-Seeger-Revivalist-2007"/> including a 2009 [[National Heritage Fellowship]], which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/year/2009 |title=NEA National Heritage Fellowships 2009 |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=www.arts.gov |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928023511/https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/year/2009 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His influence on the folk scene was described by [[Bob Dylan]] in his autobiography, ''[[Chronicles: Volume One]]''. He was a popular presenter and performer at traditional music gatherings such as [[Breakin' Up Winter]].
Eight days before his 76th birthday, Mike Seeger died at his home in [[Lexington, Virginia]], on August 7, 2009, after stopping cancer treatment.<ref name="NPR-Brown-Cleared Paths-2009-08-08">
{{cite news|title=Mike Seeger Cleared Paths, Showed Us The Way|url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111693752|work = NPR Music|first=Paul|last= Brown|publisher=National Public Radio|date=August 8, 2009|access-date=August 9, 2009}}
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The Mike Seeger Collection, which includes original sound and video recordings by Mike Seeger, is located in the [[Southern Folklife Collection]] of the Wilson Library of the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20009/|title=Mike Seeger Collection, 1923-2010 (bulk 1955-2002)|website=finding-aids.lib.unc.edu|access-date=2017-11-06}}</ref>
==Discography==
* ''Old Time Country Music'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1962)
* ''Mike Seeger'' (Vanguard) (1964) <ref>{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mike-seeger-mw0002392895 |label=Mike Seeger{{snd}}Mike Seeger |first=Richie |last=Unterberger |access-date=September 14, 2015 }}</ref>
* ''Tipple, Loom & Rail'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1965)
* ''Mike and Peggy Seeger'' (Argo) (1966)
* ''Mike and Alice Seeger in Concert'' (King (JP)) (1971)
* ''Music From True Vine'' (Mercury) (1972)
* ''Berkeley Farms'' (Folkways) (1972)
* ''The Second Annual Farewell Reunion'' (Mercury) (1973)
* ''American Folk Songs for Children'' (Rounder) (1977)
* ''[[Alice Gerrard]] and Mike Seeger'' (Greenhays) (1980)
* ''Fresh Oldtime String Band Music'' (Rounder) (1988)
* ''American Folk Songs for Christmas'' (Rounder) (1989)
* ''Solo: Oldtime Country Music'' (Rounder) (1991)
* ''Animal Folk Songs for Children'' (Rounder) (1992)
* ''Third Annual Farewell Reunion'' (Rounder) (1994)
* ''Way Down in North Carolina'' ''(w/ Paul Brown)'' (Rounder) (1996)
* ''Southern Banjo Sounds'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1998)
* ''[[Retrograss]]'' ''(w/ [[John Hartford]] and [[David Grisman]])'' ([[Acoustic Disc]]) (1999)
* ''True Vine'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (2003)
* ''Early Southern Guitar Sounds'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (2007)
* [[Robert Plant]] and [[Alison Krauss]] – ''[[Raising Sand]]'' (Rounder) (2007)
* [[Ry Cooder]] – ''[[My Name Is Buddy]]'' (Nonesuch) (2007)
* ''Talking Feet (Book) Compiled with dancer Ruth Pershing'' (Consignment) (2007)
* ''Talking Feet (DVD)'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (2007)
* ''Bowling Green'' ''(w/ [[Alice Gerrard]])'' (5-String Productions) (2008) (Re-release of Greenhays released in 1980)
* ''Fly Down Little Bird'' (Appalseed) (2011)
===Recordings with the New Lost City Ramblers===
* ''New Lost City Ramblers'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1958)
* ''Old Timey Songs for Children'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1959)
* ''Songs for the Depression'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1959)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers – Vol. 2'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1960)
* ''Newport Folk Festival, 1960, Vol. 1'' (Vanguard - VRS 9083) (1960)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers – Vol. 3'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1961)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1961)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers – Vol. 4'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1962)
* ''American Moonshine and Prohibition Songs'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1962)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers – Vol. 5'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1963)
* ''Gone to the Country'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1963)
* ''String Band Instrumentals'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1964)
* ''Rural Delivery No. 1'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1964)
* ''Modern Times'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1968)
* ''New Lost City Ramblers with Cousin Emmy'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1968)
* ''Remembrance of Things to Come'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1973)
* ''On the Great Divide'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1975)
* ''Earth is Earth'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1978)
* ''[[Tom Paley]], [[John Cohen (musician)|John Cohen]], Mike Seeger Sing Songs of the New Lost City Ramblers'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1978)
* ''20th Anniversary Concert, with [[Elizabeth Cotten]], Highwoods String Band, Pete Seeger & the Green Grass Cloggers'' (FLYING FISH (Rounder)) (1978)
* ''The Early Years, 1958–1962'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1991)
* ''Out Standing in their Field: The New Lost City Ramblers, Vol 2, 1963–1973'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1993)
* ''There Ain't No Way Out'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (1997)
* ''40 Years of Concert Recordings'' (Rounder) (2001)
* ''50 Years: Where Do You Come From? Where Do You Go?'' (Smithsonian Folkways) (2008)
==Selected films featuring Mike Seeger==
* ''Homemade American Music'' (1980) by Yasha Aginsky
* ''Always Been a Rambler'' (2009) by Yasha Aginsky
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190726185241/http://mikeseeger.info/ Official site]
* {{discogs artist|Mike Seeger}}
* {{IMDb name|1182412}}
{{International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame}}
{{Pete Seeger}}
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