Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns
Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns
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Small Town Talk
Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock

Author: Barney Hoskyns

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/29/2016

Synopsis

When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country." They headed for Woodstock—not the site of the infamous music festival of 1969 but to the Catskills, to Bearsville, to Woodstock proper. Counterculture revolutionaries like Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, and Paul Butterfield got "back to the land," turning the once sleepy hollow into a funky Shangri-La.

Small Town Talk tells the town's musical history, from its earliest days as a bohemian arts colony to its ongoing life as a cultural satellite of New York. Woodstock, the bucolic artists' enclave, has earned its place in rock music history; Small Town Talk is a classic study of a vital music scene in a magical place during a revolutionary time.

About Barney Hoskyns

Barney Hoskyns is a music historian, editorial director of the online music-journalism library Rock's Backpages, and author of Hotel California, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits, and an oral history of Led Zeppelin. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zippergirl on February 28, 2016

Gimme an "F" Gimme an "I" Gimme a "V" Gimme an "E" What's that spell? FIVE! What's that spell? FIVE! What's that spell? FIVE! Ok, just getting into the groove here. Five stars for this social history of Woodstock NY. And if you attended the Woodstock Arts and Music Festival, you weren't anywhere near......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on April 21, 2018

Not to be confused with the legendary 1969 festival, which took place some 100km to the south-west at Max Yasgur's farm near Bethel, this book charts the history of the music and arts community which took place in the township of Woodstock, Ulster County, New York and the adjacent hamlets of Bearsvi......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on March 16, 2016

Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock is about Woodstock, the town - and not the festival named after Woodstock and which actually took place 60 miles away. Albert Grossman (manager of Bob Dylan, the Band, Janis Jopl......more

Goodreads review by Randall on December 25, 2019

Think of this book as not a history of Woodstock music, but instead the story of how Albert Grossman, and his acts Dylan, Band, Bearsville, etc. affected the Woodstock area. Every other topic in this book is just seasoning. What did I learn: Grossman refused to allow his groups, the Band or Janis Jo......more

Goodreads review by Chuck on June 07, 2016

My wife picked this up at the library (she finds the best stuff) and I read 90% in the 2 weeks I glad it. It gives a good overview of the history and how Dylan came to live there. The way of life was described in snapshots but fits well with This Wheel's On Fire, the Levon Helm biography. The list o......more

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