I was out in San Fran for several weeks to be with my very sick brother, and stayed at a friend of his' apartment in the Mission. The friend (who built a paradisal house up in Forestville), has a spectacular book collection there (and probably more upin Forestville). All the leftist classics. I pulled down Suze Rotolo's "A Freewheelin' Time," which I've always meant to read. It was appropriately placed next to Van Ronk's "The Mayor of MacDougal Street." My favorite parts were the non-Dylan stuff: her
Some enticements for me were her writing that Bob would play harmonica for Lonnie Johnson at Gerde's Folk City. Not sure I'd heard that before. Also, she includes a photocopy of a review by her friend Pete Karman of a concert at the Riverside ChurchAug. 6, 1961 in which "Bob Dylan of Gallup N.M. played the guitar and harmonica simultaneously and with rural gusto." Also, a photocopy of a Broadside issue page of Mar. 1963 that has the sheet music for a song called "Train a-Travelin." I don't remember
Anyway, I found it a good read, and her a forthright and sweet person.Singer/Songwriter. A strange claim, but I thought, after listening to her stuff (which you can do here: https://connieconverse.bandcamp.com/album/how-sad-how-lovely) that she did seem to be doing something that her friends must have thought was new.
Switching topics, did any of you see the NY Times piece on Connie Converse (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/nyregion/connie-converse-nyc.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)? The piece argues that she, not Bob, was the first
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