Gloria Stavers!

GeeGee Recommends! (March '68)

"GeeGee recommended LPs this month include DONOVAN's beautiful double LP The Gift From A Flower To A Garden on Epic; the CREAM's Disraeli Gears on Atco (the Cream will no longer be cutting single records -- only LPs); RICHIE HAVENS Something Else on Verve; The Lewis & Clarke Expedition on Colgems; BOBBY VINTON's Please Love Me Forever on Epic; MITCH RYDER's What Now My Love on Dyno Voice; VAN DYKE PARKS Song Cycle on Warner Bros.; and the ROLLING STONES' weird and beautiful Their Satanic Majesties Request (if you think that three-dimension cover is a gas -- couldja find the "hidden" BEATLE pix? -- wait'll you see the multi-colored centerfold montage inside!)

 

Gloria Stavers and the Greenwich Village Folk Scene

Last Sunday, the Coen Brothers and T Bone Burnett organized a tribute to folk music at Town Hall in NYC, with legacy and contemporary artists from both folk and rock coming together to celebrate the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s (The Coen's new film "Inside Llewyn Davis" explores its early days.)  Reviews of the concert reminded me of how much Gloria loved and wrote about all the folk artists that she saw perform in clubs like The Bitter End, The Gaslight, Cafe Wha and The Village Gate.  Some of her favorites that made it into the pages of 16 Magazine were Bob Dylan (he was even on the cover in April '66!), Judy Henske, Tom Rush, Joan Baez, Eric Andersen (she introduced Eric on Ed Hurst's "Aquarama" Philadelphia variety show when she co-hosted,) Odetta, Richard and Mimi Farina, Judy Collins, and ...