Ebook: The Mayor of MacDougal Street [2013 edition]: a Memoir
Author: Van Ronk Dave, Wald Elijah
- Tags: Folk singers, Folk singers--United States, Liedermacher, Biographies, Autobiographie, Van Ronk Dave, Folk singers -- United States -- Biography, United States, Van Ronk Dave -- 1936-2002, USA
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- City: United States;USA
- Language: English
- epub
"The Mayor of MacDougal Street is a first-hand account by a major player in the social and musical history of the '50s and '60s. It features encounters with young stars-to-be like Bob Dylan (who survived much of his first year in New York sleeping on Van Ronk's couch), Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries like Reverend Gary Davis, Woody Guthrie, Mississippi John Hurt, and Odetta."--Jacket.;Prehistory : youth in the outer boroughs -- Jazz days -- Folk roots and libertarian anarchy -- Washington Square and beyond -- The Guild and Caravan -- Where the real money was -- Friends and recordings -- Lewis and Clark revisited -- California -- The commons and Gary Davis -- The Gaslight -- Changing of the guard -- The blues revival -- The new song revolution -- The waning days of Babylon -- Last call.
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