It features encounters with young stars-to-be like Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil O
chs, and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries like Reverend Gary Davis, Mi
ssissippi John Hurt, and Odetta. It is a vivid evocation of a singular time and
place - a feast not only for fans of folk music and blues, but for anyone intere
sted in the music, politics, and spirit of a revolutionary period in American cu
lture. The Mayor of MacDougal Street is the inspiration for the Coen Brothers' n
ew film, Inside Llewyn Davis, a fictionalized version of Dave Van Ronk's classic
memoir of Greenwich Village in the '60s, and starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mullig
an, and Justin Timberlake.
