…your own surprises and favorite things in the comments! Bob Dylan in Christopher Park image courtesy of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah The List: Bob Dylan has written more…
Read MoreMay is a great time to celebrate Bob Dylan. His album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was released on May 27th, 1963, and Dylan will celebrate his 82nd birthday on May 24! Dig through…
Read More…4th Street. Rotolo is best known as the girl walking arm-in-arm with Bob Dylan down Jones Street on the cover of his album, “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” Today’s Washington Square…
Read More…the years. Here are some highlights: Bob Dylan Records “Blowin’ in the Wind” — July 9, 1962 Bob Dylan’s South Village Bob Dylan’s First NYC Gig: April 11, 1961 Dylan…
Read More…for Dylan. His widow, Barbara Shutner remembers the day: My husband Logan English and I met Bob Dylan at Bob and Sid Gleason’s house… One night we were all sitting…
Read More…in the Village and the owner of the very first espresso machine, by day. Whitehorse Tavern, a spot frequented by Dylan Thomas. Bob Dylan (formerly Robert Alan Zimmerman) derived his…
Read MoreOn January 24, 1961, a young Bob Dylan arrived in New York City with nothing but a guitar, a few songs, and big dreams of making it in the world…
Read MoreBob Dylan & Suze Rotolo 2016 is coming to an end. What better way to ring in the New Year than at some of Bob Dylan’s old haunts? Below is…
Read More…those exhibits permanently available online. Today we explore three more of our 31 shadowboxes from the event: Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, and Lorraine Hansberry. Bob Dylan Legendary musician, singer, and…
Read MoreSource: bobdylan.com On this day, July 9th, back in 1962, Bob Dylan recorded his song, “Blowin’ in the Wind.” There are many, many connections between Bob Dylan, this song, and…
Read More…1965 photograph by photographer Fred W. McDarrah and to sit on the bench virtually with Bob Dylan in Christopher Park. Village Preservation · Bob Dylan Village Voices Audio To return…
Read More…find, but also the rich cultural history that makes this neighborhood world-famous. Cafe Wha? on MacDougal Street – Bob Dylan performed here in the 1960s. Tim McDarrah, son of the…
Read More…soon became synonymous with the folk revolution. The following year, Glaser created something even more iconic: his poster of Bob Dylan that was packaged with the singer-songwriter’s Greatest Hits collection….
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Read More…week Dylan recorded “Bringing It All Back Home,” and has been used by everyone from Martin Scorsese, who put it on “The Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956-1966” (the companion DVD to…
Read More…their tracks. Join a panel of Dylan experts to reflect on Dylan’s transformation in New York and Newport during the tumultuous 1960s. Read about “When Bob Dylan Went Electric” in…
Read More…Dylan, and E.E. Cummings. In 2008, the Welsh Assembly Government created a Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village. Written by Peter Thabit Jones and Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan…
Read More…He crossed over to influence rock stars like Bob Dylan (who changed his name from Zimmerman) and The Beatles, who included his image on the album cover of Sgt Pepper’s…
Read MoreTerri Thal was part of the 1960’s Greenwich Village folk music world. She was Bob Dylan’s first manager shortly after the 21-year-old musician came to New York City. She also…
Read MoreHaunts of Dylan Thomas walking tour with Poet Bob Holman Join your fellow Village Preservation members and Bob Holman for a guided tour of the Greenwich Village sites that are…
Read More…see many of the same sites he did, with some guidance from our downloadable Dylan map. Launched in 2016, Village Preservation’s “Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’s Village” map offers 20 different sites…
Read More…and local great Bob Dylan a best seller, even after all those years since he lived here. (Check out Village Preservation’s Bob Dylan Map here.) Never noticed the similar font…
Read More…1964 as Simon and Garfunkel. (Bob Dylan was there, and apparently talked through the whole show. This was the beginning of a long-standing grudge between Dylan and Simon.) The Gaslight…
Read More…and he remains one of the most transformative figures in American music. He discovered artists from Billie Holiday to Bob Dylan, and scores more in between. A New Yorker by birth and a Villager…
Read More…days includes Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, John Denver, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Odetta, Neil Young, Josh White, and Phil Ochs, among many, many others. Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue”…
Read More…Bob” and it stuck. A few years later Robert “Bleecker Bob” Plotnik left the partnership and opened his own record store on West 3rd Street, calling it “Bleecker Bob’s”. …
Read More…and aspiring singer/songwriters. Joan Baez at her debut at the Newport Folk Festival, 1959 One of those aspiring artists was Bob Dylan. Baez first met Dylan in April 1961 at…
Read More…Village Preservation. The folk music figure McDarrah was closest to, and probably did the most to immortalize, was Bob Dylan. There is perhaps no more recognizable image of Bob Dylan…
Read More…of the twentieth century. In April 1961, Bob Dylan played his first official gig, supporting John Lee Hooker at Gerde’s. Only a year later, Dylan debuted Blowin’ in the Wind…
Read MoreFound on the Bowery: Bob Holman. Bob Holman has been making poetry downtown for over 25 years. Among his many endeavors, he is perhaps best known locally as the impresario…
Read MoreFor The Records — The Legacy and Lessons of Bleecker Bob’s: A Film Screening & Discussion When Bob Plotnik quit law to open up a record store in Greenwich Village…
Read MoreFor the Records: The Legacy and Lessons of Bleecker Bob’s A documentary film screening When Bob Plotnik quit law to open up a record store in Greenwich Village in the…
Read MorePatti Smith and Bob Dylan On Saturday, December 10, 2016, the extraordinary Patti Smith accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature on behalf of Bob Dylan in Stockholm, Sweden. In a…
Read More…John Lennon’s living on Bank Street and declaring “I regret profoundly…not having been born in Greenwich Village,” to the huge impact Bob Dylan’s “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” (written while Dylan…
Read More…of Bob Dylan’s even more iconic 1963 breakthrough album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. While Dylan and then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo were turning Jones Street into a landmark of modern American pop…
Read More…Paul Clayton was a mentor and friend to Dave Van Ronk, a friend to Liam Clancy, and later a mentor to Bob Dylan. (It is said that both ‘It’s All…
Read More…another and inspiring new work. Perhaps one of the most legendary partnerships of the folk scene was between Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan and Joan Baez Dylan, whose…
Read More…artists, and living in the basement apartment under the same club where Bob Dylan eventually wrote “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” on Monck’s Selectric typewriter. In 1969 he was hired…
Read MoreBob Dylan’s original handwritten lyrics. We hope that you are staying safe and dry as Hurricane Sandy batters New York. Today we’re going to take a look at Bob Dylan’s…
Read More…Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” via Wiki Commons Perhaps few album covers are more closely associated with Greenwich Village than that of 1963’s “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” The folk masterpiece containing “Blowin’…
Read More…earlier, Bob Dylan rented a small apartment at 161 West 4th Street in December 1961 with his girlfriend, Village local Suze Rotolo. Rotolo was the subject of such Dylan classics…
Read MoreIn 2016, legendary singer/songwriter and one-time Greenwich Village resident Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” He…
Read More…sites like this—the Northern Dispensary! Bob Dylan, 161 West 4th Street In front of the Music Inn, a place a couple of doors down from where Bob Dylan once lived…
Read More…appeared on 1963’s “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” the iconic cover of which was shot on Jones Street. All three of these Dylan-connected sites are located in the South Village, an…
Read More…helped the world to discover artists from Billie Holiday to Bob Dylan and scores more in between. Hammond was absolutely one of the most transformative figures in 20th-century popular music….
Read More…against greatness: “…In walked Bob Dylan, a sometime regular there. Without saying a word, Bob picked up a guitar and started playing with the kid…They never said a word to…
Read More…nineteen-year-old named Bob Dylan asked for “a few songs.” He sang Woody Guthrie ballads, the crowd “flipped,” and a legend began. Dylan soon played afternoons as a backing harmonica, sharing…
Read More…Bob Dylan. When the musicians got to the park, the police were already there. The result was the ‘Beatnik Riot.’ Cohen recalls it as ‘one little glitch with the cops,’…
Read More…performed there, including Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Pete Seeger, and shows included future stars such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas and The Papas, the Byrds, The Lovin’ Spoonful, the…
Read More…of Dylan’s album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” which was photographed on Jones Street, features Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo walking arm-in-arm on a snow-covered street. Looking northwest along 8th Street…
Read More…at the time. Joan Baez and Bob Dylan performing at the March These included Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, and Odetta. Baez sang “We Shall Overcome,” and…
Read MoreWhite Horse Tavern and Dylan Thomas. Photo courtesy of newyork.com. On Wednesday, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation will be hosting a walking tour on Dylan Thomas that will culminate…
Read More…Bob Dylan are some of the most iconic of the volumes of historic photographs that Fred captured. This rare Fred W. McDarrah signed copy of Dylan sitting on the bench…
Read More…few doors down on the right you’ll find Café Reggio, 119 MacDougal Street — This popular coffeehouse was noted for attracting artists and musicians beginning in 1927, including Bob Dylan….
Read More…artists, especially during the ’70s and ’80s. “Rolling Thunder Revue” poster, 1975 Their long-time friend and Bob Dylan’s former road manager, Bob Neuwirth, held tryouts in their loft for the…
Read More…held by Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and Peter, Paul, and Mary (Mary Travers was a waitress at Cafe Wha?…
Read More…End evolved into a major launching pad for new talent. Some of the artists who performed there during its halcyon days include Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Billy Joel,…
Read More…In the 1960s and 70s it was a great center of rock music and performance, launching the careers of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Patti Smith, among many others. (l….
Read More…Cunningham John W. Draper Bob Dylan Martha Graham Lorraine Hansberry Billie Holiday Edward Hopper Jane Jacobs Larry Kramer Helen Levitt Edna St. Vincent Millay Joan Mitchell Joe Papp Charlie Parker…
Read More…New York that are connected to Greenwich Village, from Peter Stuyvesant’s bowery to Bob Dylan’s MacDougal Street. One part history, one part urban exploration, Footprints in New York follows in…
Read More…Memoir of Greenwich Village in the 1960’s” (2008), Rotolo was known to millions as the girl walking arm-in-arm with Bob Dylan down Jones Street on the cover of his album,…
Read More…others, Dylan Thomas, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner and Edna St. Vincent Millay. He recently crafted a guitar for Bob Dylan whose body was made from the wood recycled from Chumley’s…
Read More…his friend and colleague Rick Kelly. The stories, the celebrity anecdotes (after all, Umanov worked on guitars for the likes of Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan) and the reflections on…
Read More…their long-time friend and Bob Dylan’s former road manager, Bob Neuwirth, held tryouts in the Poons’ loft on one evening for the Dylan Rolling Thunder Review tour in 1975-76. In attendance that…
Read More…supposed to enjoy doing what you are doing.” Manny’s friend Bob Engelheart ran the kitchen and Manny booked acts such as young Jose Feliciano and Bob Dylan. The coffee shop…
Read More…Blondie, Run DMC, The Roots, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Nas, Kanye West, Madonna, Beyonce, Stevie Wonder, Billy Idol, U2, Adele, Frank Ocean and Daft Punk, among many others, have recorded…
Read More…ensued, no public blame was ever assigned. Click here to register for this Zoom webinar My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me Tuesday, May 21, 2024 6 pm In-person Free …
Read More…of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music world. She was Bob Dylan’s first manager shortly after the 21-year-old musician came to New York City. She also managed Dave Van Ronk…
Read More…and LaGuardia Pl; Birthplace of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour), and the Village Gate at Mills House No. 1 (156-158 Bleecker, between Sullivan St and Thompson St) where Bob…
Read More…I. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, the B-52’s, Maynard Ferguson and Bo Diddley have all been guests at the hotel. Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin were evicted from…
Read More…Berry, Bo Diddley, John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, the Rolling Stones, Barbara Streisand, and, of course, Bob Dylan. In 1961, Dylan rented a $19-a-week room…
Read MoreBob Dylan & Suze Rotolo on Jones Street The Village and East Village have long been the home of music-makers and music venues; their streets and sites on more than…
Read More…and 60s. By many accounts, it was here at the Fat Black Pussycat that a young Bob Dylan wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in April, 1962, which appeared a year…
Read More…announced the Beatnik riot On Sunday, April 9th, close to 3,000 “Beatniks,” including a 19-year-old Bob Dylan, came to the park to play their music in opposition of this ban….
Read More…visible in the photo above. This would have been around the time that Jimi Hendrix was “discovered” there in 1966. A few years earlier, Bob Dylan moved to New York…
Read More…Pussycat, and many other significant music venues. Musicians of the likes of Bob Dylan, Peter Paul & Mary, and The Lovin’ Spoonful, among many others were also getting their start…
Read More…around her. She lived and performed downtown (still does), and recorded the album at Electric Lady Studios on West 8th Street. Bob Dylan, a close friend since he first saw…
Read More…Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul, and Mary, Seeger was instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war protests, among many other key political issues. Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger, undated…
Read More…Bob Dylan images from Sheridan Square. The Ink Pot Magazine office, located off Sheridan Square Sheridan Square & West 4th Street Bob Dylan on a Bench in Sheridan Square, 1965…
Read More…we also listened to an interview with Bob Dylan, who talked about how he could play every one of Woody’s songs. He would visit Woody in the hospital, bring him…
Read More…– a coffeehouse and music venue that hosted the likes of Bob Dylan, beat poets like Allen Ginsberg, Jimi Hendrix, and many more. It was located at 116 Macdougal Street…
Read More…all of the artists, writers, politicians, social movements, and musicians of the day. The Fred W. McDarrah Estate has graciously allowed this photo of Nico and others including Bob Dylan,…
Read More…documented, it seems), Bob Dylan stayed at the Washington Square Hotel. He first rented a room there in 1961, the year he arrived in New York and shortly before his…
Read More…their talents. The nightclub served as an incubator for talents like Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and even Bob Dylan. Roth closed the club in the late 1960s, and the space…
Read More…1964, Bob Dylan commented in Broadside magazine that “I just can’t keep up with Phil. And he’s getting better and better and better.” Ochs eventually recorded a total of eight…
Read More…gathering place for artists, especially during the ’70s and ’80s. Their long-time friend and Bob Dylan’s former road manager, Bob Neuwirth, held tryouts in their loft for the Dylan 1975-76…
Read More…described as “the definitive biography.” A singer with a voice “as lustrous and rich as old gold,” Baez has mentored generations of singer-songwriters, most notably Bob Dylan. Drawing on interviews…
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