Greenwich Village Artists

Full title - Bleecker Street - Greenwich Village In The 60's. New York may not be the folk music Mecca it once was but there is certainly enough history to warrant a tribute album such as this. Bleecker Street was the breeding ground for such artists as Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Tim Buckley...

2009 release, a collection of songs that celebrates the music of Greenwich Village in the early '60s. Features 13 classic songs performed by Cowboy Junkies, Rickie Lee Jones, Bruce Hornsby, Los Lobos, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shelby Lynne, Lucinda Williams, Amos Lee and others.

In early 1961, a 19 year old Bob Dylan, having dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year, traveled to New York City, ostensibly to visit his idol Woody Guthrie, hospitalized with Huntingdon's Disease...

Writer-director Paul Mazursky's transparently autobiographical Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a film of considerable charm and appeal. His alter ego in this case is Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker), an aspiring actor in his early twenties who leaves his Brooklyn home, kvetching mother (Shelley Winters), and hen-pecked pop (Mike Kellin) and moves to Greenwich Village, a few subway stops and several worlds away...