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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 Audiobook
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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 artist 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.
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"[F]ans of 1960s and '70s rock and music history buffs will find this a pleasure."
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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.