Josh Marshall's appreciation of Seeger and one by Bruce Springsteen include a video previously featured on this site, of Seeger and Springsteen singing "This Land is Your Land" as part of President Obama's first Inaugural celebration. Time Magazine has videos of his performances of some of his most famous songs.
Appreciations of Phil Everly that place him in musical and historical context by Linda Ronstadt and Paul Simon, among others are here and here. Ronstadt wrote a neat three paragraphs for Time Magazine, which is buried behind their subscriber/registration wall. But it's worth seeking out.
As these articles make clear, their legacies live not only in their own music but in musicians who came after them. In Seeger's case, as Josh Marshall writes, his activism changed America in many ways. Helping to save the Hudson River from death by pollution is one of his greatest and least appreciated contrbutions.
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