by Weston | Feb 2, 2024 | Book Events, Roots of Woodstock Blog |
Sled Hill Café Posters at Swann Auction Galleries On February 8, 2024, thirteen posters from the Sled Hill Café are up for sale at the Swann Auction Galleries in New York City. In 1968, the Sled Hill Café, The Elephant, and the Café Expresso hosted nightly music...
by Weston | Jan 23, 2023 | Roots of Woodstock Blog |
In his memoir, Bill Graham Presents, Bill Graham wrote, “Albert Grossman had probably the best ears of anybody I knew, and [when] he played me some tracks off Music from Big Pink, I was just blown away.” When Music from Big Pink hit turntables in 1968, it...
by Weston | Dec 20, 2013 | Roots Book |
On December 29, Rick Danko, the bass player and singer in The Band, would have been 70. Danko grew up in Ontario, Canada, and left school at 14 to become a rock musician. His break came when he was tapped by Ronnie Hawkins to join The Hawks, one of Canada’s hottest...
by Weston | Jan 9, 2012 | Roots Book |
In the 1960s, Bob Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary, The Band, and later Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix were active in the Woodstock area. So, what was it like to grow up in Woodstock in the 1960s? Recently I chatted with Frank Spinelli, the photographer and writer, to...
