![]() Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene. Also nearby was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Kettle of Fish, where many performers hung out between sets, includingīob Dylan. The club was next door and down the stairs from the street-level bar, the Gil Robbins worked as the club's manager in the late 1960s. Patty Smyth, and blues guitarist/performer Susan Martin until it closed in 1971. The club was run by Betty Smyth, mother of Ed Simon, the owner of The Four Winds, reopened the Gaslight in 1968. Moyant's father-in-law, Clarence Hood, and his son, Sam, managed the club through the late 1960s. Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, the Gaslight showcasedįolk-music club. The Gaslight was originally a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set and hope to be paid. Also known as The Village Gaslight, it opened in 1958 and became notable as a venue forįolk music and other musical acts. Documentary on the musicians and history made at the Gaslight during its prime (available on Netflix).New York.Brian Fallon said that the name of his band The Gaslight Anthem was inspired by Bob Dylan's show in 1962.Live at The Gaslight 1962 live album by Bob Dylan.Mad Men - Babylon (6th episode of the first season), created by Matthew Weiner (2007).An array of musicians also performed at the club in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Odetta, Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bonnie Raitt, Reverend Gary Davis, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Big Mama Thornton, Link Wray, Mimi Fariña, jazz musician Charles Mingus, Happy Traum and Artie Traum, Doug Kershaw, Bob Neuwirth, David Bromberg, David Buskin, Janis Siegel (who later joined The Manhattan Transfer), and others. Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton sat in together for a week at the Gaslight with John Hammond, Jr. Mississippi John Hurt and Jesse Fuller ("Lone Cat") played there. ![]() The first public "electric" appearance of The Blues Project (with Danny Kalb) took place at the club. 1964–1966 saw many early performances by Richie Havens, Jose Feliciano, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Eric Andersen, John Herald, Ralph Rinzler, The Greenbriar Boys, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Carolyn Hester, and Dave Van Ronk. Notable performersĪmong those who performed at the Gaslight were Bill Cosby Bob Dylan Luke Faust, a five-string banjo player and singer who sang Appalachian ballads Len Chandler Paul Clayton Luke Askew Wavy Gravy and in 1972, Bruce Springsteen. ![]() So then the audience couldn't applaud they had to snap their fingers instead."īrian Fallon, lead singer and guitarist of The Gaslight Anthem has explained in several interviews that the band's name came from The Gaslight Cafe as he had heard it was one of the first places that Bob Dylan had played and liked the sound of the word and the imagery it brought about.Ĭurrently, a full length motion picture screenplay called "116 MacDougal" is being written by Vincent J Restauri about John Mitchell and the founding of The Gaslight Cafe and the beginning of the counter culture movement. In the Folk Music Encyclopedia, Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton wrote "The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. Live at The Gaslight 1962 (2005), a single CD release including ten songs from early Dylan performances at the club, was released by Columbia Records. Also next door was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene. Some nights the Kettle of Fish was "locked" down to the public because a young "reclusive" singer and poet was in attendance. The club was next door and down the stairs from the street-level bar, the Kettle of Fish, where many performers hung out between sets. The club was run by Betty Smyth, mother of Scandal lead singer Patty Smyth, and blues guitarist/performer Susan Martin until it closed in 1971.įolk musician and actor Gil Robbins worked as the club's manager in the late 1960s. John Moyant bought the club in 1961, and his father in law Clarence Hood and his son Sam managed the club through the late 1960s. Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, the Gaslight showcased beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso but later became a folk-music club.
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