[Rarebooks] FS: 1960s Cambridge Folk Revival--history & an added relic

[Bob Petrilla]

Von Schmidt, Eric and Jim Rooney. BABY, LET ME FOLLOW YOU DOWN: The
Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years -- Original Club 47 broadside
laid in. Second [best] Edition, with a New Preface.  . Amherst: U of
Massachusetts Press, 2007. Second Edition. ISBN: 0870239252. pp: 314, (3);
illustrated throughout from photographs. 10.75" x 8.25" -- Laid into our
copy is an original Club 47 broadside: CLUB 47 INC. CHILDREN'S SERIES,
SATURDAYS 2:30, DONATION $1.00. October 15, Happy and Artie Traum ...
October 29, Mike Cooney ... November 5, Carol Langstaff ... November 26,
Jackie Washington ... December 10, The Cambridge Consort ...." 47 Palmer
Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA: Club 47 , 1966. Original edition.
Broadside, one page, 14" x 8.5", printed in red ink on tan stock,
incorporating six vignettes. Mailing panel on verso. ~~ "The Club 47 once
was a coffee house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although it was only open
ten years (January,1958 to April, 1968) and seated only about 80 people, it
became the flagship of the Boston area's coffee house armada and one of the
centers of the 1960s folk music revival. It hosted many of the heroes of
traditional music: Appalachian dulcimer players, Cowboy singers and
storytellers, Delta blues men and women, gospel groups, Celtic artists, jug
bands, bluegrass bands... legendary artists from around the globe. You
could also hear new voices at the Club 47 ... the young Joan Baez trying
out a Child ballad for the first time, or that new kid, Bob Dylan, up from
New York, testing the crowd's reaction to some new lyrics set to an old
melody. Judy Collins, Richie Havens, Van Morrison, Eric Anderson, Tom
Paxton, John Hammond, Tom Rush and a host of others came to that tiny room,
and learned, Tom Rush recalls." (Baby, Let Me Follow You Down). ~~ In
near-fine condition, this is an original broadside, not a cheap, modern
reprint. On the back are rough, on-the-spot sketches of folk musicians,
executed and signed by artist/sculptor Jonathan Shahn. Jon was in the
Boston folk-revival scene back in the early '60s, and he often used the
versos of handouts and broadsides for his sketches. Jon worked at Club 47,
part-time as the dishwasher and part-time as a musician.
 Fine. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers.
"In honor of the fiftieth anniversaryin 2008 of the founding of Club 47,
all of the photographs in this book have been rescreened to achieve a
higher quality of reproduction. This new edition was first printed in
November, 2007." $200.00

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