Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Author’s Note

Epigraph
Prelude
Chapter One: Ruby-Throated Sparrow
Chapter Two: The Gypsy Rover
Chapter Three: Lingo the Drifter
Chapter Four: My Buddy
Chapter Five: The Blizzard
Chapter Six: So Early in the Spring
Chapter Seven: The Gilded Garter, the Exodus, and the Excess
Chapter Eight: Gates of Horn and Ivory
Chapter Nine: Gerde’s, the Village Gate, and the Folk Blitz: Joan, Mary, Bob, Carolyn, and Richard
Chapter Ten: The Lark in the Morning
Chapter Eleven: Golden Apples and the Beginning of the Affair
Chapter Twelve: There Is a Season

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Chapter Thirteen: Wild Rippling Water
Chapter Fourteen: The Kettle of Fish
Chapter Fifteen: Judy Collins 3
Chapter Sixteen: Blacklist
Chapter Seventeen: Mississippi Summer
Chapter Eighteen: Pack Up Your Sorrow: Russian Songs, Broken Hearts, and Max
Chapter Nineteen: The Coming of the Roads
Chapter Twenty: Blue Strangers and Blue Friends: Dick Fariña, Mimi Baez Fariña, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen
Chapter Twenty-one: In My Life
Chapter Twenty-two: My Father
Chapter Twenty-three: Wildflowers
Chapter Twenty-four: Sky Fell
Chapter Twenty-five: Smoke and Mirrors
Chapter Twenty-six: The Swinging, Singing, Murderous Sixties
Chapter Twenty-seven: Hello, Hooray!
Chapter Twenty-eight: Helplessly Hoping
Chapter Twenty-nine: Amid the Storm

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Chapter Thirty: Stacy, Woodstock, and the Humpback Whales
Chapter Thirty-one: The Art of Antiwar
Chapter Thirty-two: Amazing Grace
Chapter Thirty-three: Easy Times
Chapter Thirty-four: The Mogul and the Movie Star
Chapter Thirty-five: The Last Gasp
Chapter Thirty-six: The Drinking Decades
Chapter Thirty-seven: Resurrection
Chapter Thirty-eight: Miracles and Menaces
Chapter Thirty-nine: The End of the Storm

Acknowledgments

Discography