Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Back in the Day, by Lawrence Block

1    Prehistory: Youth in the Outer Boroughs

2    Jazz Days

3    Folk Roots and Libertarian Anarchy

4    Washington Square and Beyond

5    The Guild and Caravan

6    Where the Real Money Was

7    Friends and Recordings

8    Lewis and Clark Revisited

9    California

10    The Commons and Gary Davis

11    The Gaslight

12    Changing of the Guard

13    The Blues Revival

14    The New Song Revolution

15    The Waning Days of Babylon

16    Last Call

Afterword, by Elijah Wald

Index