The same mix that you’ll find on my albums is what I was into back then.”īonnie Raitt backstage at the Whisky A Go Go in 1972 (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)įor many people, the eclectic nature of Raitt’s music over the years remains one of her major attractions. I was always musical and I loved lots of musical styles – rhythm and blues, rock’n’roll and ballads. But I had no designs on being a professional musician, it was just a hobby while I was in college. That tweaked my interest in playing the guitar. "Also, we were Quakers, and were involved in civil rights and in the folk music ban-the-bomb protest movement. A lot of the camp counsellors were caught up in the folk music revival that was sweeping the East Coast, things like the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul & Mary, plus The Weavers and Pete Seeger. “And then I used to go off to summer camp when my dad would be on tour this would have been in the late fifties or early sixties, when I was nine or ten. My grandparents were also musical, which set me off in that direction. My two brothers and I grew up in a musical household. I had a musician mom who played great piano, and a father who became a musical director he sang all the time. “My dad was the original leading man in Carousel, and he was in a show called The Pajama Game, which was big in the fifties. Cafes, restaurants, bars, shops and music venues all fill the street.“I was raised in a musical family my folks were part of the Broadway music scene,” she begins. Today, MacDougal Street is one of the liveliest streets of the city. It wasn’t long after when Dylan moved to Malibu in California”. After asking Weberman time and time again to stop, Dylan lost it and beat up Weberman on the street. Weberman would also bring loads of people to the townhouse. Weberman, one of his neighbors picked through the Dylan’ trash in a huge violation of their privacy. In 1969, Dylan purchased a townhouse on 94 MacDougal Street. He also met Dave Van Ronk here at the center, who introduced him into the Greenwich Village music scene. Though not widely known to the public, Dylan wrote “Talking Folklore Center” as a tribute to the center and its owner, Young. It’s the Floklore Center, at 110 MacDougal Street. In the same neighborhood, there is a bookstore where Bob Dylan used to sit in the back and listen to records that the store had. He also wrote a song inspired by her, “ Tomorrow Is a Long Time”. In 1964, as Dylan swiftly rose to fame, he and Suze parted ways. Tambourine Man” and “ A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”. He was deeply inspired by it, leading him to create masterpieces like “ The Times They Are A-Changin’”, “ Mr. In 1963, Dylan saw a performance of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera and heard the song Pirate Jenny, at Theatre de Lys, at 121 Christopher Street. This bar is one of the oldest in New York City. This is where Dylan and Suze crossed paths and began dating.ĭylan and girlfriend would sit in the bar White Horse Tavern, at 567 Hudson Street, and listen to Irish Rebel songs performed by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Suze Rotolo lived in the apartment one floor below. You could always find a folk singer crashing in Miki’s living room. Thus a tradition was born.ĭylan briefly lived on one Sheridan Square, on the 4th floor where he stayed with ‘folk scene den mother’ Miki Isaacson. As police would often be called by nearby tenants because of the loud clapping, patrons began to snap their fingers quietly to show appreciation to the performers. It was here that Dylan wrote “ A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”.īob Dylan performed at Kettle of Fish, at 116 MacDougal Street, which launched the “snapping fingers” tradition. That same year, he performed a show at the club.Īmong the places that welcomed Bob Dylan during his younger years are also: Fat Black Pussycat, at 105 MacDougal Street where he wrote his hit “ Blowin’ In The Wind” and Village Gate, at 158 Bleecker Street, where Dylan stayed with his friend, Chip Monck, who lived in the basement of the building. He returned in 1975, when he was recording his album Desire. He frequented the nightclub and played pool while watching performances. Once a week, The Bitter End, a nightclub at 147 Bleecker Street, hosted new artists who were just breaking into the business.
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