The new book 'Talkin' Greenwich Village' reveals the origins of Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' in the Wind' and its impact on the New York folk scene.
senior writer David Browne details the rich and often complex history of New York City’s creative hotbed.
At Gerde’s Folk City and a few other venues, the New World Singers had a repertoire that came to include “If I Had a Hammer” and Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,” along with reworked versions of “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” and “Down by the Riverside” . Dylan had heard them at Gerde’s — Traum would remember him joining them now and then for a few songs — and witnessed one of the high points of their set: “No More Auction Block,” an antislavery song Dixon would sing a cappella.
ALBERT GROSSMAN, DYLAN’S NEW MANAGER, immediately renegotiated Dylan’s one-album deal with Columbia and pushed for his other clients to record Dylan’s songs. Ian & Sylvia’s first album for Vanguard relied heavily on traditional songs like “Rambler Rambler” and “Mary Anne” .
Meanwhile, the New World Singers could only watch from afar as a song they’d first covered became a milestone for another group with a more aggressive manager and a more prominent record company behind it. “We didn’t stand a shot,” said Happy Traum. “Our version was on Folkways. Peter, Paul and Mary were on Warner Brothers. We didn’t have that kind of clout. Their version was better and more commercial.” Added Dixon, who had left the band by then, “I was a little jealous of Peter, Paul and Mary.
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