He spoke for those who could not speak for themselves…His was the voice of the underdog, the conscience of youth, the power of conviction.
And his was the voice that made me go out and buy a banjo and a Seeger instruction record. I practiced eight hours a day and it wasn’t long before I was good enough to accompany songs that lashed out at the things that bothered me. Naturally these efforts took their toll on my grades.
…Pete was building a barn then, and in return for my help with the construction he gave me banjo lessons. Without the Seegers I probably never would have made the grade as a performer.〔Crofut (1968), pp. 68-70〕

Mr. Crofut and his companion, Mr. Addiss, have rightly been called the "troubadours of goodwill." This is the story of African schoolchildren who came for miles to share a performance with them at the top of a hill in Kenya; of the playing to a chorus of artillery fire before Vietnamese villagers; singing to wounded students in Korea; reaching remote villages by bamboo rafts in northern Thailand; and teaching finger game songs to children in Nepal …They disregarded physical hardships in order to sing in village markets, homes and schools, in many cases to audiences which had never seen an American.〔Crofut (1968), p. 9〕