Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock

by Barney Hoskyns

Book Overview

Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock-the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident-was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306823209
• ISBN13: 9780306823206
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"