From the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village to the stage of Woodstock, folksingers became a powerful cultural force in the 1960s. Mixing music and politics, tradition and innovation, romance and righteousness, these men and women were outspoken voices for their generation, each with a story to tell. 

This collection of intimate profiles and essays by veteran music journalist Bruce Pollock, a Village resident and clubgoer during folk’s heyday, documents the musicians’ progress from passing the hat to topping the charts.

“Folk music has a contradictory mission — to preserve tradition and to screw with it. In his incisive collection of interviews with key folk stars from the '60s through the '80s, Bruce Pollock captures both functions perfectly. His flowing conversations with the stars show the traditions they honored as well as the many ways they pushed them forward.”

—music critic Jim Farber

"Bruce Pollock was in the right place at the right time, and this book is a time capsule from a memorable era."

—Elijah Wald, author of The Mayor of MacDougal Street
and Dylan Goes Electric!

$18.50 (paperback)

ISBN 979-8-9856589-6-5 (paperback) / 979-8-9856589-7-2 (eBook)