My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.
I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not.
We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, "You know what? I know my dad's songs...
With all of the history that he'd had with the Weavers, he really was a connection between my dad's era and the world of the late 60's.