The Mayor of MacDougal Street (21 page)

The 1950s:
(Clockwise from bottom left) Jamming with Bob Yellin and Roy Berkeley in the Folklore Center; with Lee Hoffman in Washington Square (note the banjo); a Folksingers’ Guild ad; and the Bosses Songbook; Paul Clayton in his pith helmet; my card; warring personae: the hipster bluesman and the academic folksinger.
(All photos: Photosound Associates: J. Katz, A. Rennert, and R. Sullivan.)

The Folk Scare Begins:
(Clockwise from bottom left) The Reverend Gary Davis, with fans including Happy and Jane Traum (behind unknown bass), Dick Weissman, unknown, and John Gibbon with guitar
(photo: Photosound Associates)
; me and Tom Paxton onstage at the Commons; a typical college concert poster; the blues workshop at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, with John Hammond Jr., Mississippi John Hurt, Clarence Cooper, me, Sonny Terry, and John Lee Hooker
(photo: Dustin S. Pease)
; the cover of the
Folksinger
album, in front of the Folklore Center on MacDougal Street.

Glory Days:
(From lower left) The Gaslight Café
(photo: Don Paulsen)
; John Hurt and Patrick Sky in the Kettle of Fish
(photo: Bob Campbell, courtesy of Patrick Sky)
; a Gaslight ad and the program for a Civil Rights concert; The Ragtime Jug Stompers at Newport, with Bob Brill, Barry Kornfeld, me, Artie Rose, and Sam Charters
(photo: Ann Charters)
; a classic example of sixties psychedelia; with Joni Mitchell.