About Steve Sedberry's Music
It is too easy to say that Steve Sedberry is a "voice crying in the wilderness,"
unless you have been confronted by the truth of the message in Steve's lifestyle and in his music.
A true folk voice with roots in the 1960's era of folk music,
Steve learned guitar on his own and from the great Pete Seeger with whom he studied for eight years.
The tonal quality of Steve's guitar and voice slice through the extraneous "stuff" of our lives like a knife.
The message of his music is sometimes painful, sometimes prophetic, sometimes reassuring,
and always performed with the integrity of one who believes what he is singing.
The listener cannot hide out, but instead, is called to make a response.
If you believe God speaks to you in a variety of ways,
then you may hear something profound, even divine, in Steve's music.

Rev. Mary Lou Gilbert, Buchanan, GA, 14 Jan 2003

[from a response to Pastor Gilbert:]
As far as how long I studied with Pete......well, I'm not sure how long.
I guess I'm still studying with him and with you and with everyone else I know.
I didn't really sit down in his classroom for eight years.
He was my mentor starting sometime after 1965, I think it must have been.
After hearing his songs for years I met him in summer 1969 at a Broadside workshop
at the Newport Folk Festival but only briefly and very casually.
It wasn't until Oct. 1971 that I spent about a week or ten days around him on the sloop "Clearwater"
which was moored at and sailed from Poughkeepsie, NY. On the final night we sailed down to Yonkers.
While I was supposed to be on watch, standing at the bow, we ran over a bouy!
I was pretty startled. I felt stupidly inattentive, but frankly had not been adequately prepared to 'watch.'
That's how it often is around Pete, his wife Toshi and some of the other idealists: one is not really prepared
for what one is expected to do. I think magic or something like it must be highly valued by that 'community!'
I'm quietly chuckling as I write this remembering those days of trusting the blind to lead the blind.
May God lead us so that the blind can follow, too.
-SS
PS I hope that doesn't sound too presumptuous. I certainly take no credit. 1