The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Featuring a wealth of archival material, vintage performance clips and interviews with the ever-dignified subject himself, the documentary provides a fairly comprehensive portrait of Seeger's decades-long musical career and social activism. If at times the proceedings become a bit sentimental, it's well befitting a pop star who lives in a house that he built with his own hands and who still spends his spare time singing to schoolchildren and participating in anti-war and environmental causes."
Variety wrote: "Brown beautifully works Seeger's family life into the story ... illustrating how he incorporated rigid principles of simplicity and environmental conservation into daily life. ... No novice to docus (his last pic was''
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time!''), Brown fills the screen with handsome, full-frame talking heads that make every commentary come alive. Archival footage and photos are seamlessly woven in, but best of all is the music remastering, each song and concert performance gorgeously reproduced."
The Village Voice wrote: "This laudatory but not quite fawning 93-minute documentary takes a greatest-hits approach to the life and song of the now 88-year-old agit-folk musician. ... Shallow, very officially sanctioned, and overly compressed,
The Power of Song plays like a
PBS infomercial for the inevitable DVD box set, which will surely include even more archival footage. Director Jim Brown is perhaps too determined to prove the obvious: that Seeger has lived a long, full, admirable life." == Accolades ==