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Perfect playing! Bravo. Pete would be proud of you.

Great performance, Pete! A a great sounding banjo too!

Second song sound like Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”! Like all good bluesmen, Pete only stole from the best!

Are Carson and Skylar McKee related to you?

Beautiful singing and playing!!

Now, 7 years later, the Seattle School District is back at it. In 2022, some issues are new, but it is still the teachers who shoulder the burdens. Solidarity once again!

glad to see you're still playing! always wanted to learn banjo, but my hands are tied with guitar. your microphone sounds good aswell

I wrote this song for the 2010 family reunion, and hoped to bring it back for our upcoming 2022 reunion talent show, but that pesky COVID exposure got on the way. To one and all - have a great time! - Peter

You killed it man! Great job

This is honestly wonderful and amazing!

Incredible

Solidarity forever!

Such a great way to show your respect of the carter family :) did you also see Sara's grave? this is such a nice peacefull place to be laid to rest :) AP & Sara are together with their children here :)

Big thumbs-up for all the songs!!!

A new song of hope? If so, why fill the video full of negative political pictures. It took away the good feeling from an otherwise nice song.

Nice job Peter. Uplifting and timely.

I really enjoyed this Peter. You're amazing! Thanks for writing it, playing and singing it, finding the photos, and sharing it with us. We need hopeful messages these days.

Thank you all for listening to my new song and watching this video. Feel free to send the link far and wide, should you be so inclined. (A lyric sheet with chords is shown at the end.) Be well. Peter H.D. McKee, Seattle - 3/27/20

thank you for your lovely playing

Thank you I’ve been making oats wrong my whole life

As one of the few, if any, true Scottish Thistle Spurtle makers in the USA, I really enjoyed this.

Awesome Peter..

I like 2 finger better than 3 finger Scruggs style.

Sounds Awesome, I like the first song you played its a 2 finger style, I taught myself 2 finger thumb lead banjo but I prefer not to wear picks it has a more dark haunting and mellow sound.

Gordon - thank you for your note. Yes, I am using just the thumb and index finger to play the song, a style Pete called "double thumbing". I suspect it has other names - clawhammer folks would call it "drop thumb", but this is not played frailing or clawhammer style. Unfortunately I don't know how to write tab, and I can neither read and write music, so I have nothing of a written form on this song. Your note did make me wonder how I learned it, more than 30 years ago. I think I just learned Pete's style of double thumbing found on page 19 of his banjo book and then applied it and tried to replicate what I heard on his recording of this song as he played it with Arlo Guthrie on the recording mentioned at the end of my little video. Sorry I cannot be of more help. I guess that's why it's called folk music. Thanks again for writing and stumbling onto my video. It is still amazing to me that anyone has found it! Take care, Peter.

Peter, it looks like you're using two-finger on Well May the World Go, yes? Do you have a tab for it?

I wrote this song in 2013 as my video entry to a contest being run by Bob's Red Mill of Portland, Oregon. They were soliciting the best recipe using their Steel Cut oats. The winner of that contest would go to Scotland to compete in an annual international oatmeal competition. While I was not selected to compete in the semi-final cook-off in Portland, Bob graciously invited me down to play this song at their Portland cook-off that year and Bob later invited me to jam with him - Bob plays a mean piano. It was a great adventure. - Peter (PS - the recipe is real, although I threw in the shot of coffee just as an attention-getting Seattle gimmick.I really don't use coffee in my oatmeal.)

Morris - Thank you for your note. I continue to be amazed that anyone stumbles upon my little video. Peter

Wonderful. Thanks for helping to preserve Pete's sound and spirit.

Great job

thank u pick up the music @ Dusty Strings in Seattle. Will share

like it - reminds of the resistance songs of the 60's and 70's

Love the call & response! Thanks.

Good work, Pete!

good job pete. great material.

Thanks Lynne. Peter..

That's terrific!

This morning, 9/9/15, my wife joined 5000 fellow Seattle public school teachers on their first day of their strike against the Seattle school district and their refusal to meet the needs of both the teachers and the public school students. This is the first time teachers in Seattle have gone on strike in 30 years. Judy needed some appropriate songs for their picket duties today, so I sent her this rewrite of "Solidarity Forever" this morning from my downtown office. This afternoon, she sang it on the picket line. Solidarity forever! - Peter McKee - Seattle

that is absolutely insane, but VERY well done!