Was offered to him by concerned mother substitutes and occasional It was all street."Īfter spending time sleeping on floors and taking whatever hospitality You know, those things don't happen any more,īut back then, that was what was happening. Or met congregated every Sunday, and it was like a world of music.īongo drums, conga drums, saxophone players, xylophone players,ĭrummers of all nations and nationalities, poets who would rant and Place delightful: "Washington Square was a place where people you knew Monck, later to become one of the most sought-after lighting directorsįolksingers had been gathering around the fountain here on SundayĪfternoons since the end of the Second World War and Dylan found the LUGOFF'S VILLAGE GATE (160 Bleecker Street, at Thompson)ĭylan wrote A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall in September 1962 in theīasement of the Village Gate, in a small apartment occupied by Chip That was reviewed in the New York Times by Robert Shelton, after whichĦ. It was his headlining appearance at Gerde's on September 26
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Almost everyone played there, includingĭylan who made his first "hoot" appearance on Monday, February 13,1961Īnd played his first professional gig on April 11, supporting John Lee Their Monday night hootenanny showcases became the most important on Opened as a coffee-house by a likeable Italian called Mike Porco inġ952, this smartly run establishment became a folk club in 1960 and GERDE'S FOLK CITY (71 West Fourth Street) On the stage and played it for the audience, while Bob stood in the It for Gil Turner, who thought it was fantastic. When he finished it, we went over to Folk City and Bob played Guitar and asked me to play various chords, while he worked on the Scribbling away, writing on a piece of paper. To be confirmed in April 1962, as David Blue recalled: "I remember oneĪfternoon we were sitting in The Fat Black Pussycat drinking coffee,Īnd Dylan started writing a song. Of his arrival in New York, but the venue's historical importance was THE COMMONS, later renamed THE FAT BLACK PUSSYCAT (MacDougal Street,ĭylan played at The Commons, a sprawling basement club, within a week Kettle Of Fish bar, above stairs, was also a regular drinking hang-Ĥ. Dylan premiered Masters Of War and many other songs here. Ginsberg and Gregory Corso but became a folk club when Sam Hood took Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, a wild-lookingīohemian and legendary pioneer of Greenwich Village coffee-houses, theĭark, steamy, subterranean Gaslight had showcased beat poets Allen One of the young Dylan's favourite haunts, The Gaslight was originallyĪ "basket house", where performers were paid the proceeds of a passedĪround basket. THE GASLIGHT CAFE and THE KETTLE OF FISH (116 MacDougal Street) Today, Young runs a Folklore Center based in Stockholm.ģ. Young promoted Dylan's first professional concert, at the CarnegieĬhapter Hall on November 4,1961. Young's old typewriter One of them, the unreleased Talkin' FolkloreĬenter, was specially composed on March 19,1962 as a fund-raiser. Meeting people and, later, writing songs in the back room on Izzy Many hours here, looking at records, music, trying out instruments, Young, a loud, disorganised, big-hearted folk enthusiast. With the emergent folk scene had been founded in March 1957 by Izzy The central day-to-day meeting place for almost everyone connected THE FOLKLORE CENTER (110 MacDougal Street) Put it in his early song, Talkin' New York) behind Mark Spoelstra andįred Neil, writer of Dolphins and Everybody's Talkin'.Ģ.
Playing harmonica ("blowin' my lungs out for a dollar a day" is how he In theįollowing weeks, Dylan would appear occasionally at the coffee-house, and he did, playing a short set of Woody Guthrie songs. Dylan asked the owner, Manny Roth, if he could perform He caught a subway down to Greenwich Village and blew into the Cafe When Dylan first arrived in New York City on Tuesday, January 24,1961, Were on similar journeys." (Bob Dylan, speaking on Westwood One Radio, 1985) It was a great place for me to learn and to meet others who It was a dream of the cosmopolitan riches of The rest, John Bauldie explains, is history. He headed straight for Greenwich Village's In January 1961, 19-year old Bob Dylan stepped on to the streets of New Village Walking Tour Village Walking Tour MAPS & LEGENDS: POSITIVELY 4TH STREET REVISITED
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