A consummate Dylan fan, Peter Stone Brown, died recently. I knew Peter a little bit way back when the newsgroup rec.music.dylan was a hotbed of Dylan information. The group was an amazing resource in the early internet days, fostering so many stimulating lines of thought, so much sharing of information. (And to be sure, a …
Peter Hamill had died, and it’s a dirty, rotten shame. A few decades ago Hamil was a well-known NYC-based journalist. He was part of a generation of great American newspaper and magazine writers – Hunter Thompson, Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe come to mind – that often came from the hard-knocks school-of-life but went on to …
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I haven’t had a chance to browse through the material on this site, but I will. Looks promising! The Dylan Review
The owner of The Bitter End has died. Link below to NY Time obituary.
Below is an article posted to Facebook Edlis Cafe group. Must reading. “Dylan” – from Cheetah, 1967 I Nearly two years ago, Bob Dylan had a motorcycle accident. Reports of his condition were vague, and he dropped out of sight. Publication of his book, Tarantula, was postponed indefinitely. New records appeared, but they were …
Although I know the history of the 60’s folk movement pretty well, I had never heard of the “Beatnik Riot” of 1961. To mark the 50th anniversary NPR did a piece on it. Link to the documentary, “Bloody Sunday” below.
Story of how Dylan came to participate in the Isle of Wright Festival.
Izzy Young ran the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village back in the early sixties. Dylan and all the folk singers knew him well.
I am reading Bob Coltman’s book, Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival. He mentions that Pete Seeger wrote an advice column that was published in Seventeen magazine. That seemed pretty interesting, and a web search picked up the article. I pasted it below, since the website was producing some weird errors. PETE SEEGER TALKS …
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