New Book Features Interviews With Greenwich Village Singer-Songwriters
by Best Classic Bands Staff
Trouser Press Books has announced the June 6, 2023, publication of The Bleecker Street Tapes: Echoes of Greenwich Village, a new collection of profiles and essays by veteran music journalist Bruce Pollock. The book will be published in paperback and e-book. Pre-orders are available here now.
According to a press release from the publisher: “From the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village to the stage at Woodstock, folk singers became a powerful cultural force in the 1960s. Mixing music and politics, tradition and innovation, romance and righteousness, these men and women were outspoken voices for their generation, each with a story to tell.
John Sebastian performs in East Lansing, MI, 1970. Photograph by Jim McClear, used under license from CC BY-SA 2.0
“Now, more than a half-century later, The Bleecker Street Tapes sees Bruce Pollock, a Village resident and clubgoer during folk’s heyday, expertly capturing the extraordinary life and times of these legendary artists through insightful interviews and contemporary appraisals of such icons as Leonard Cohen, Loudon Wainwright III, Roger McGuinn, the Roches, Dave Van Ronk, Suzanne Vega, John Sebastian, Phil Ochs, Peter Tork, Maria Muldaur, Richie Havens, Janis Ian, Harry Chapin, Melanie, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Don McLean, Peter, Paul & Mary, Tuli Kupferberg, Eric Andersen and more.
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“The interviews and articles collected here speak for themselves,” writes Pollock in the book’s introduction, “about the highs and lows of the era as experienced by those on the ground, just as the music they gave us still speaks to a dimming memory as frustrating as a dream lost to the daylight.”
2 Comments so far
Jump into a conversationLooking at the list of names mentioned on Amazon, I don’t see Fred Neil, which makes the book inessential to me.
Fred Neil was a vital part of the Village scene, but presumably the author was unable to talk to him.