In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so much of what is known about folk music exists at all. When he died on August 17 at the age of 89, the legacy he left behind was so much greater than himself, and the world is richer for it.
In 1960, Hickerson made his most prominent contribution to the folk music canon by adding two verses to the original version of Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"
"I extended it in May 1960 because for two reasons. We were singing it at Indiana University at parties and people would get in, do harmony and what not and it would be over. So we would repeat the verses," he continued.
The final product was a circular version of the song that has since become a folk music standard.
"He quickly became their guide through the ages, making sense of the thicket of oral histories and competing genealogies that populated the archive," wrote Clay Risen of Hickerson for The New York Times. "If someone wanted to know the real story behind the evolution of a centuries-old Irish dirge, he was the one to call on."
"I've been fortunate in that I've been able to do it from both ends," Hickerson told the Seattle Times of his dual role as a musician and historian. "One scholar said to be able to do that you must have a split personality. I think they're both fun."
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