This Week PBS Will Debut Pete Seeger

THERE'S NO denying that folksinger Pete Seeger looks hale and hearty as he chops wood in tonight's PBS presentation, "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song."Still, the guy's 88, and is, as the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines puts it, "a living testament to the First Amendment," a man who paid the price for what he said - and what he refused to say - before the House Un-American Activities Committee nearly two decades before the outspoken Maines was born.

The Power of Song which traces the eighty-eight year-old folk legend's life from his time with the Weavers through the Joe McCarthy witch hunts to his days as elder statesmen of the folk community. It's loaded with archival footage of Seeger singing such classics as "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "If I Had A Hammer" and interviews with fans such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. Seeger called into Rolling Stone recently to chat about the documentary, his memories of Bob Dylan and Lead Belly — as well his thoughts on the presidential election.