The 1961 Beatnik Riot
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.
Interesting Article on Dylan and the Isle of Wright
Story of how Dylan came to participate in the Isle of Wright Festival.
Documentary on Izzy Young on YouTube
Izzy Young ran the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village back in the early sixties. Dylan and all the folk singers knew him well.
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
I was reviewing Andrew Muir’s Homer the Slut Volume 4 today, which contains a long series of excerpts from various Dylan books about the song, Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. The authors express some surprisingly varied ideas of what the song is about. Is it a love song? Is it something more akin to …
Pete Seeger’s Advice Column in Seventeen Magazine
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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Desolation Row – Excerpt from Homer the Slut Fanzine
Welcome to the inaugural post for the new Dylan Commentaries blog. The blog – just like the web site – will focus on topics related to the first eight albums of Dylan’s career, except for when it doesn’t. Today’s lunch hour was reserved for reading Homer the Slut Volume II, the fanzine published by Andrew …
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