
Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780594828136
Publication Date: 03/08/2016
Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstockthe tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accidentwas already a key location in the '60s rock landscape.
Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the sceneand on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990sHoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.
Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the sceneand on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990sHoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.
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