by Weston | Feb 22, 2018 | Roots Book |
Jean and Jim Young owned The Juggler during the late 1960s in Woodstock, NY. It was an avant-garde bookstore that sold guitar strings and had a magazine rack featuring copies of Rolling Stone and Billboard magazines. In 2008 Jean participated in a panel...
by Weston | Feb 11, 2010 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
The Woodstock Sound-Outs were mini-festivals, after which Michael Lang modeled his mega event in 1969. They were held on Pan Copeland’s farm on the outskirts of Woodstock, New York, from 1967 to 1970. The stage was inches from the ground, and the amphitheater...
by Weston | Jan 19, 2010 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Remembering Woodstock provides a fine assessment of the roots and cultural fallout of the Woodstock festival. This is accomplished via scholarly essays by a number of music and media academics from the UK and the Commonwealth. The one anomaly is the...
by Weston | Dec 23, 2009 | Roots Book, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Tim Hardin (1941-1980) moved to the Woodstock area in 1968 with his wife, Susan Morss, and his young son Damion. Already the town was a thriving music destination— with The Band, Bob Dylan, the Mothers of Invention, Richie Havens, and the Blues Magoos in residence. It...
