Get the latest gossip
A Tour of Bob Dylan’s ‘Complete Unknown’-Era Greenwich Village, With Day-One Fan Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf's book 'Waiting on the Moon' includes a fascinating chapter about Bob Dylan's early days in New York — Wolf took us on a tour of landmarks.
A diverse crowd, one you wouldn’t think belong in the same book: Marilyn Monroe with a scarf on her head sitting next to him in a movie theater, Muddy Waters, Faye Dunaway, David Lynch the filmmaker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jagger, Tennessee Williams, Merle Haggard.” The book is filled with amazing tales, but there’s little question that the Dylan chapter is the most historic, and serves almost as a companion to the first hour of the Oscar-nominated biopic, “A Complete Unknown.” While only in his mid-teens at the time, the Bronx-born Wolf was a die-hard denizen of the legendary Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s. He frequently rode the subway downtown, got off at West 4th Street and hit the clubs, coffee houses and other venues — the Gaslight, the Kettle of Fish, Gerdes Folk City, the legendary Folklore Center — that helped launch or amplify the careers of Dylan, Pete Seeger, Josh White, Peter, Paul and Mary, Phil Ochs, Judy Collins, Dave Van Ronk and others, and served as proving grounds for the following generation of singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and many more.
Or read this on Variety
