Little City Books In Hoboken To Host A Night Of Dylan Songs

Written By Mike Greenblatt
Timothee-Chalamet-as Bob-Dylan

Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan

CREDIT: DIGGZY/ SHUTTERSTOCK/ SPLASH / SPLASHNEWS.COM

By any reader’s estimation, Little City Books—100 Bloomfield Street in Hoboken—is a great book store. It hearkens back to an earlier era when you could spend hours just browsing through its titles in a friendly atmosphere. Maybe that’s why the producers of the new Bob Dylan bio-pic—A Complete Unknown—due Christmas Day, picked the venue to film some scenes for actor Timothee Chalamet as Dylan. On December 12, at 7:00 p.m., Freedy Johnston, Karyn Kuhl, James Mastro of The Bongos, Elena Skye and Boo Reingers of The Demolition String Band, Dave Schramm, Tammy Faye Starlite, Keith Hartel, Deena Shoshkes and Jon Fried of The Cucumbers, Paul Moscella, Glenn Morrow, Mary Lee Kortes and a vocal group of young people put together by City Lights co-owner Kate Jacobs will perform Dylan songs in honor of the store being in the movie.

Many of the film’s New York City scenes were actually filmed in New Jersey. For the occasion, Little City was transformed into a Greenwich Village early ‘60s venue. The film is based on a 2015 book by Elijah Wald, Dylan Goes Electric. It covers the years ’61 to ’65 when this scruffy Jewish kid from Hibbing, Minnesota, Robert Zimmerman, arrived in the Village, made up all kinds of stories as to who he was, and renamed himself Bob Dylan. Edward Norton plays Pete Seeger. Monica Barbaro plays Joan Baez.

For further information on the event, visit Little City Books.

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Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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