Like bottles of 'Chateau Eyquem', Seeger's banjo picking is made up of a localised history, 'a portable sample of the region' which embodies his perception of the natural world around him.
'' This song doesn't have any ending, it just keeps trickling on like a little mountain brook. Near my home in the Hudson Valley there is a brook like this, crystal clear. I can't say as much for the Hudson River. In a manner of speaking there are little clear streams of music like this all through our country, and probably throughout the world, and sometimes the larger streams get polluted, but these little streams are still there. Twenty-five years ago i was a teenager and i first heard music like this, and i started trying to learn some of it, and I'm still trying " Pete Seeger.