An old Pete Seeger song that ran through my head in the autumn of 2016 ends with the lines: “And by union what we will can be accomplished still. / Drops of water turn a mill; singly none.” In 2020, I’m listening to folk singer Lee Knight sing that same song (“Step by Step”) on the Kronos Quartet’s “Long Time Passing.” The group’s latest album is a tribute to Seeger, who once wrote on his banjo: “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.”
Long Time Passing
Musicians follow the American election’s deceptive cadence
