The Bleecker Street Tapes

Echoes of Greenwich Village

By: Bruce Pollock, Kristina Juzaitis (Designed by)

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Paperback | 1 June 2023

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From the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village to the stage of Woodstock, folksingers 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.

The Bleecker Street Tapes -- a collection of intimate profiles and essays by veteran music journalist Bruce Pollock, a Village resident and clubgoer during its heyday -- documents folk music's evolution from passing the hat to topping the charts.

Profiles include

Dave Van Ronk

Phil Ochs

Richie Havens

Tuli Kupferberg

Melanie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Eric Andersen

Peter, Paul & Mary

Roger McGuinn

John Sebastian

ï»Peter Tork

Maria Muldaur

Loudon Wainwright III

Janis Ian

The Roches

Harry Chapin

Suzanne Vega

Don McLean

Leonard Cohen

Industry Reviews

"Folk music has a contradictory mission -- to preserve tradition and to screw with it. In his incisive collection of interviews with key folk stars from the '60s through the '80s, Bruce Pollock captures both functions perfectly. His flowing conversations with the stars show the traditions they honored as well as the many ways they pushed them forward."

-- music critic Jim Farber

"Bruce Pollock was in the right place at the right time, and this book is a time capsule from a memorable era."

--Elijah Wald, author of The Mayor of MacDougal Street and Dylan Goes Electric!

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