Part of the reason why I loved the book when I first read it after seeing the film in theatres last year with my father was how Elijah used the early life of Pete Seeger and to a lesser degree Woody Guthrie as a way to set the scene of the action so to speak when the young Bob Dylan arrives on the scene, he also does an excellent job outlining how The American Folk Music Revival and The Civil Rights Movement were entwined together during the early 60s.
Some books off of the top of my head that I can think of that I feel are similar include…
Suze Rotolo – A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Clinton Heylin – Trouble In Mind: Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years – What Really Happened
Dennis McNally – The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
Joe Klein – Woody Guthrie: A Life
David King Dunaway – How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger
Stephen Petrus & Ronald D. Cohen – Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
David Browne – Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital
Bob Dylan – Chronicles Volume I [Has a few chapters in it that cover his early days in 1961 when he moved to NYC.]
If their are people who have read any of these books that I mentioned in my post, I would like to get your opinion on each of these and which one would work as a "companion piece" to Elijah's.
by philliplennon