Fred Hellerman, the last surviving member of the influential Fifties folk group the Weavers, died September 1, 2016 at his Connecticut home at the age of 89.

Hellerman, along with the Weavers' Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays and Pete Seeger, helped spark the folk revolution of the 1960s thanks to their renditions of standards like "Kisses Sweeter than Wine," Woody Guthrie's "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" and Lead Belly's "Goodnight Irene." Weavers songs penned by Hellerman include "The Honey Wind Blows," "Walkin' on the Green Grass" and the antiwar song "Come Away Melinda." Hellerman also often employed aliases to write tracks for other artists: His "Just a Country Boy," co-written under the pseudonym "Fred Brooks," would become a hit for Harry Belafonte and Don Williams.

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Remembering Fred Hellerman and the Weavers