Small town talk : Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & friends in the wild years of Woodstock /

Hoskyns, Barney,

Small town talk : Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & friends in the wild years of Woodstock / Barney Hoskyns. - viii, 402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The uneasy alliance -- Folk songs of the Catskills -- Inside Albert Grossman -- "The greatest place" -- Boy in the bubble -- Something is happening -- Hundred and forty dollar bash -- Frankie and Judas -- Something to feel -- Paint my mailbox blue -- Everybody's apple pie -- Combination of the two -- Brand new days -- Some way out of here -- Back to the garden -- He's not here -- Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz -- If you build it -- The shape they're in -- Music among friends -- The ballad of Todd and Albert -- "Creativity and ferment" -- In a good place now -- "Dope, music, and beauty" -- A hermit, a true star -- Tuesday night fever -- Forbidden fruit -- Broken heart -- Epilogue: "how does that old song go?" -- Coda: didn't he ramble -- Take your pleasure: 25 timeless tracks.

The town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the 1969 concert, is over 60 miles from the actual site. And Woodstock was a key location in the rock landscape even before Bob Dylan holed up there after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident. Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band.

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Rock music--History and criticism.--New York (State)--Woodstock
Rock musicians--New York (State)--Woodstock.


Woodstock (N.Y.)--History.

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