In his book "Chronicles: Volume 1," Bob Dylan was given a very warm tribute to Mike Seeger, compared to "a duke, a knight errant, the archetype of the Supreme Musician folk. At once romantic, egalitarian and revolutionary, he had a knighthood in the blood. " Mike was best known for being part of the New Lost City Ramblers, the New York group founded in 1958 with John Cohen and Tom Paley (the latter later replaced by Tracy Schwarz), which had contributed to popularize the music old-time Appalachian, a source of inspiration for the folk movement of the sixties. Humility and generosity that characterized Mike Seeger produced over thirty albums of music collecting of the most diverse American roots and played the autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mandolin and dobro. He participated in more than 40 albums as a musician and especially the recent "My Name Is Buddy by Ry Cooder and" Raising Sand "Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, which won a Grammy. Mike died of cancer August 7, 2009 in Lexington, Virginia, a week before celebrating his 76th birthday. Homage will be in Paris on August 26 with the projection Jockomo, 41 rue St Maur Film Yasha Aginsky (with director) Always Been a Rambler, which traces the rich history of the New Lost City Ramblers and just everything just released in the U.S..
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