Richard Barone Co-Hosts February 7 ‘Book Talk’

Written By Mike Greenblatt
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Richard Barone of Hoboken’s The Bongos, whose appearance in The Jersey Sound documentary is garnering raves for his clear-headed, blunt, articulate assessment of the state’s multiple scenes, will co-host—with Terri Thal—a conversation downstairs at the iconic Bitter End club in New York City called “A Complete Unknown:  Fact And Fiction” about James Mangold’s popular Dylan movie. Thal—an important part of the burgeoning Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s—was the wife-manager of scene kingpin Dave Van Ronk and also Dylan’s first manager. She is the author of 2023’s My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob & Me. Barone is the author of 2022’s Music + Revolution:  Greenwich Village In The 1960s, among numerous other books. 

This event will be recorded for future broadcast on WBAI’s “Folk Radio” show and includes Rolling Stone Senior Editor David Browne who wrote 2024’s Talkin’ Greenwich Village as well as historian Stephen Petrus who co-wrote 2015’s Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival.

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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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