This time: modern slavery, loneliness in the age of a hyper-linked world, male suicide. Seeger has recently released a new recording, First Farewell – her 24th solo album – which, like so much of her music, doesn’t shy away from difficult issues. The immediate answer might be the most obvious one. Seeger’s blue eyes sparkle throughout and then, suddenly, she throws a question: ‘So, why have you come after me?’ We’ve been speaking for nearly an hour about her life, her music and, closely aligned, its political activism and how, at 85, the body doesn’t make it so easy to get out on demonstrations and picket lines, though her spirit is still very much willing.
Peggy Seeger, folk royalty and a legend among musical legends, is sitting in her Oxfordshire home beaming at her computer’s camera for this Zoom session.
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