Released in 2005 by Columbia Records, it was originally distributed through an exclusive 18-month deal with Starbucks, after which it was released to the general retail market. OCLC 842426241.Live at The Gaslight 1962 is a live album including ten songs from early Bob Dylan performances at The Gaslight Cafe in New York City's Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation. ^ Mason, Bobbie Ann, Clear Springs: A Memoir, Random House, 1999, page 116.^ The Story of the Gaslight Café, Where Dylan Premiered ‘A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall’.^ Friends of Mike Porco bring Folk Music back to the village.^ Interview with Randy California Archived at archive.today."Tangled up in blues: John Hammond recalls his meetings with Clapton, Hendrix, Dylan and Waits". Bob Dylan stands between Ralph Rinzler and John Herald of the folk and bluegrass group the Greenbriar Boys at the Gaslight nightclub in New York City, 1959. ^ a b c "Early Bob Dylan: Classic Photographs from the 1960s"."When you came up for the name for gaslight." Tumblr. ^ Bob Dylan, Gaslight Café, New York, NY, 15 October 1962.^ Bob Dylan Gaslight Café, New York City, 15 October 1962, Still On The Road-discographical reference. ^ The first stop for aspiring 1960s folkies, Izzy Young’s Folklore Center.^ Folk Music in Greenwich Village: 1961-1970.^ Upstairs/Downstairs: A Night Out on MacDougal Street.^ "Folk singer Gil Robbins dies at 80"."Gil Robbins dies at 80 member of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen". Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. "Upstairs/Downstairs: A Night Out on MacDougal Street". ^ Woodruff, Sheryl (January 22, 2014).An array of musicians also performed at the club in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Odetta, Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bonnie Raitt, Reverend Gary Davis, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Big Mama Thornton, Link Wray, Mimi Fariña, jazz musician Charles Mingus, Happy Traum and Artie Traum, Doug Kershaw, Bob Neuwirth, David Bromberg, David Buskin, Janis Siegel (who later joined The Manhattan Transfer), and others. Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton sat in together for a week at the Gaslight with John Hammond, Jr. Mississippi John Hurt and Jesse Fuller ("Lone Cat") played there. The first public "electric" appearance of The Blues Project (with Danny Kalb) took place at the club. 1964–1966 saw many early performances by Richie Havens, Jose Feliciano, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Eric Andersen, John Herald, Ralph Rinzler, The Greenbriar Boys, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Carolyn Hester, and Dave Van Ronk. Īmong those who performed at the Gaslight were Bill Cosby Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell (her first ever appearance in NYC, in 1966, with Chuck Mitchell) Luke Faust, a five-string banjo player and singer who sang Appalachian ballads Len Chandler Paul Clayton Luke Askew Wavy Gravy Bruce Springsteen. So then the audience couldn't applaud they had to snap their fingers instead."īrian Fallon, the lead singer and guitarist of The Gaslight Anthem, has said that the band's name came from The Gaslight Cafe as he had heard it was one of the first places that Bob Dylan had played and liked the sound of the word and the imagery it brought about. In the Folk Music Encyclopedia, Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton wrote "The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. Live at The Gaslight 1962 (2005), a single CD release including ten songs from early Dylan performances at the club, was released by Columbia Records. Also nearby was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene. The club was next door and down the stairs from the street-level bar, the Kettle of Fish, where many performers hung out between sets, including Bob Dylan. įolk musician and actor Gil Robbins worked as the club's manager in the late 1960s. The club was run by Betty Smyth, mother of Scandal lead singer Patty Smyth, and blues guitarist/performer Susan Martin until it closed in 1971. Ed Simon, the owner of The Four Winds, reopened the Gaslight in 1968. John Moyant bought the club in 1961, and his father in law Clarence Hood and his son Sam managed the club through the late 1960s. Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, the Gaslight showcased beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso but later became a folk-music club. The Gaslight was originally a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set and hope to be paid.
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