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Dave Van Ronk interview, Jan. 21, 1999
Jan. 21, 1999 interview by Dave Conlin Read – We spoke with Dave Van Ronk the day before he was to perform at the Eighth Step Coffeehouse in Albany, NY. After congratulating him on receiving ASCAP’S Lifetime Achievement Award, we mentioned that Ramblin’ Jack Elliott had been honored recently by the USofA. Typically, Dave was [...]
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Arlo Guthrie interviewed Nov. 1998 at The Guthrie Center
Arlo Guthrie talks about his former plans for developing his business in downtown Pittsfield in the late 1990s, being named Arlo, and introducing Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue to Mama Frasca and the Dream Away Lodge.
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Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue party at Mama Frasca’s Dream Away Lodge
Interview with a friend of Mama Frasca who hosted Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue at her Dream Away Lodge in Becket, MA on Nov. 7, 1975 during the first leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour of New England.
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Bob Dylan in the Berkshires
By Dave Conlin Read; (article pre-dates Bob Dylan’s 2005 and 2006 Pittsfield concerts.) Bob Dylan has given only two concerts in the Berkshires, both at Tanglewood (July 4, 1991 and August 4, 1997), but he has played here four times (that we know of), the other two being a mini-set as Joan Baez’s guest at [...]
Bob Dylan concert review – Pittsfield, MA August 26, 2006
August 26, 2006 concert review by Dave Conlin Read Poster for the Bob Dylan concert – Wahconah Park, Pittsfield, MA, August 26, 2006 Bob Dylan delivered as even and as excellent a show as you could imagine Saturday night at Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, MA; it felt like this was a big deal for him [...]