Pete told me about Josh. The FBI were hounding him. He received death threats. He was a black man in trouble in a white world. Pete forgave him. Burl's situation was different. He had achieved popularity on a commercial industry level.
Many blacklisted people eventually reclaimed their jobs after McCarthy was defeated. They were courageous to stand up to McCarthy.
There was a time when folk music was deemed subversive.
It got so bad that Pete who (although he didn't invent the term) popularized the concept of a hootenanny and was barred from appearing on Jack Linkletter's Hootenanny TV show. It was like Charlie Parker being banned from Birdland but the former was strictly on political grounds.
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