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We're joined today by the singer and activist Barbara Dane.

Pete Seeger often called her one of the most remarkable American musicians of all.

We shall not be moved.

I was carrying a guitar around and singing everything I could get my hands on.

I always had a very open-minded approach to music because to me it's all one thing.

It didn't contain within little boxes.

Oh, there ain't nobody, God the blues like me.

And Barbara Dane burst onto the scene in the late 1950s.

Playboy magazine's jazz critic Leonard Feather called her Bessie Smith and Stereo.

And time magazine described her voice as pure. Rich, rare as a 20-carat diamond.

I want to come along with me.

And that Mississippi.

Across the ideological spectrum of Black America they recognize themselves and your voice.

I think that is a profound contribution to not only the arts but to humanity.

During her more than half-century in music Barbara Dane has performed with an unbelievable, diverse range of music grades.

Blues legends, lightened Hopkins, the Chambers Brothers, Memphis Leman-Willie Dixon, jazz grades like Earl Hines, Jack T. Garten and William Armstrong.

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