How did one neighborhood become the locus for generations of musical invention, from Dylan to Nina Simone? A new book has some answers
In the Sixties, Greenwich Village was the kind of place where Bob Dylan hung out with Nina Simone backstage, teaching her his songsDecades never start quite on time, pop-culturally speaking, and it’s tempting to say that the Sixties didn’t really kick off until the Beatles playedin 1964, just as “Smells Like Teen Spirt” started the Nineties in 1991.
Among many other topics, the episode also touches on the story of Dave Van Ronk, the longtime Village resident and singer who inspired the main character of the Coen brothers’. “If you talk to people who knew him back then, they’re not big fans of that movie,” Browne says. “The big objection they have is they feel like it’s so dour and depressing. And that the scene was actually much livelier, much more supportive… It was a lot of drinking and sleeping together.”you get your podcasts).
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