REBEL REBEL’s window display includes a single Van Ronk CD collection entitled “Inside Dave Van Ronk” who certainly influenced the Coen Brothers movie and it’s great fun to hear Dave singing the song “Cocaine Blues” which is featured on the album. These and a European 3 CD import “The Greenwich Village Folk Scene” featuring by the way an early rare and incredible recording of Dylan singing “House of the Rising Sun” is available with all of the others and they are in a current window display at REBEL REBEL a crowded and eclectic record shop run by David Shebiro at 319 Bleecker Street between Christopher and Grove Streets.ĭavid, who is a very amiable charming and informative man thinks of himself as a musicologist, and as an avid collector of folk and rock music, decided to create a special Greenwich Village folk music window display featuring these CD’s and including several other albums by Dave Van Ronk who now has a designated NYC street sign- Dave Van Ronk Street – which runs on Washington Place to number 15 Sheridan Arms where he lived across from the triangular Sheridan Square Viewing Garden. Another new 2 CD package from Festival Records in Australia is entitled “Greenwich Village in the 60s – Beginnings & Branches of the New York Folk Revival.” The pinnacle of “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” Tiny’s success was in 1968 when he had a solo appearance at the Royal Albert Hall with Queen Elizabeth and the Beatles in attendance on opening night. An odd note to all of this is that Dylan got one of his first gigs at the Café Wha? with the help of his then roommate Tiny Tim who regularly played the Wha? Tiny Tim began his career in the Village at a Lesbian bar called which was on 7 th Avenue South just above 10 th Street. Dylan admired Kerouac and they often crossed paths at the Gaslight where Kerouac, Ginsburg, Taylor Mead, Gregory Corso and other ‘Beatniks’ read the poetry that influenced what became known as ‘The Beat Generation’. CD collections of folk granddaddy of them all – Woody Guthrie – are also turning up to be heard once again by new audiences who are ready and eager to listen and learn what it was all about including the politics, the war, the war protests, and the changes that were happening in the country.Īfter the soundtrack release of “Inside Llewyn Davis” a company called Chrome Dreams put out a two CD set produced in Warwickshire, England entitled “Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village – Sounds from the Scene in 1961.” The compilation is an eclectic album and includes many of Bob Dylan’s cohorts and friends singing their folk tunes as well as featuring Jack Kerouac reading from “On the Road” and also an excerpt from Lenny Bruce on the Steve Allen show. Along with the film a CD album was released and after that many other CD’s were issued featuring the original recordings of many famous artists like Judy Collins or those less known ‘folkies’ like Hedy West, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Susan Reed or Tim Hardin. Following in the footsteps of the Coen Brothers amazing film “Inside Llewyn Davis” which zeroes in on the Village folk scene in the year 1961 when the Gaslight Café on MacDougal Street was one of the joints where it all began to happen. The main kind of music associated with Greenwich Village has come to be the American folk songs most particularly those that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s among Villagers and eventually were heard throughout the land with the help of singers like Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk, Oscar Brand, Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio, the Weavers, and many more.
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