Rolling Stone Reporter David Browne to Speak at LI Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame

Rolling Stone Reporter and Author David Browne will speak and sign copies of his new book Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook Village (97 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY) on May 10th at 2pm. The event is free with general admission ticket purchase.

For details on this and upcoming events please visit https://www.limusichalloffame.org/museum/

About Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital published by Hachette Books:

“From Rolling Stone senior writer and critically acclaimed music biographer David Browne, the definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers

More than just the location of some of music’s most historic venues, Greenwich Village symbolized the convergence of music, politics, reinvention, and bohemian culture—a safe space that, for decades, attracted misfits and outsiders, iconoclastic folk singers and rockers, jazz musicians, and poets before forces beyond its control crushed the scene by the dawn of the ’90s.

Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital (Hachette Books, 9/17/24) is the first panoramic history of a now-mythical music community that welcomed everyone from Billie Holiday to Bob Dylan to Jimi Hendrix to Dave Van Ronk. During his four years reporting the book, David Browne – whose personal connection to the scene dates back to his days as a college student at NYU when he embedded himself in the scene for a journalism class – interviewed more than 150 people associated with the scene. The list includes legendary musicians from its earliest days (Judy Collins, Herbie Hancock, Tom Paxton, Sonny Rollins, John Sebastian, and members of the classic band the Blues Project) to those who emerged during its last great era (Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Terre and Suzzy Roche, Steve Forbert, actor/musician Christopher Guest). Browne also uncovered previously unseen documents and recordings, including efforts to curtail folk singing in Washington Square Park in the ’60s that led to the “beatnik riot” and how the FBI and city government tracked Dylan, Van Ronk, and others.