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Small town talk : Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & friends in the wild years of Woodstock / Barney Hoskyns.

by Hoskyns, Barney.

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Da Capo Press, 2016.

781.660974 H826s

Grossman, Albert.

Rock music -- New York (State) -- Woodstock -- History and criticism.

Rock musicians -- New York (State) -- Woodstock.

Woodstock (N.Y.) -- History.

9780306823206 (hc.)

viii, 402 p., 8 unnumbered p.s of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The uneasy alliance -- Folk songs of the Catskills -- Inside Albert Grossman -- "The greatest place" -- Boy in the bubble -- Something is happening -- Hundred and forty dollar bash -- Frankie and Judas -- Something to feel -- Paint my mailbox blue -- Everybody's apple pie -- Combination of the two -- Brand new days -- Some way out of here -- Back to the garden -- He's not here -- Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz -- If you build it -- The shape they're in -- Music among friends -- The ballad of Todd and Albert -- "Creativity and ferment" -- In a good place now -- "Dope, music, and beauty" -- A hermit, a true star -- Tuesday night fever -- Forbidden fruit -- Broken heart -- Epilogue: "how does that old song go?" -- Coda: didn't he ramble -- Take your pleasure: 25 timeless tracks.

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, Woodstock - the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident - was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. Music historian Barney Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band. Central to the narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, the Band, Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield, and Todd Rundgren - and the Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants, and his own record label. Intertwined in the story are artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton, and Bobby Charles (whose immortal song-portrait of Woodstock gives the book its title). Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. A richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.

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