In the course of his forty-year career, Dave Van Ronk recorded more than two dozen albums, toured on four continents, was nominated for two Grammys, and received an ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award.Coauthor Elijah Wald wrote the acclaimed study of the myth, music, and life of blues legend Robert Johnson, Escaping the Delta. He also wrote the biography Josh White: Society Blues as well as Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas. A musician and journalist, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Praise for "The Mayor of MacDougal Street"
NewYorker.com, 9/30/13
[A] wonderful memoir.
"Slate, " 12/2/13
Your best guide when it comes to Inside Llewyn Davisapart from what
follows, of courseis Van Ronk s posthumous memoir, "The Mayor of
MacDougal Street."
"New York Times," 11/30/13
[A] sharp cantankerous memoir.
The Culture Trip, 4/1/16
Gives the play-by-play for a musical movement that was humble in
origin, but huge in populous fervor. Woody Guthrie; Joan Baez; Pete
Seeger; Richie Havens; Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary; plus dozens
more, they all live and breathe within these pagesOne of folk s
unsung heroes, Van Ronk mixes poetry and revolution, rolled into a
posthumously released autobiography as much a history of the
Village, and the folk venues that made it famous, as the life story
of its Mayor.
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NewYorker.com, 9/30/13
"[A] wonderful memoir."
"Slate, " 12/2/13
"Your best guide when it comes to Inside Llewyn Davis--apart from
what follows, of course--is Van Ronk's posthumous memoir, "The
Mayor of MacDougal Street"."
"New York Times", 11/30/13
"[A] sharp cantankerous memoir."
"New York Review of Books"blog, 12/16/2013
"The movie extensively mines Van Ronk's remarkable posthumous
memoir"The Mayor of MacDougal Street"(seamlessly compiled from
interviews by Elijah Wald; Da Capo, 2005) for scenes, anecdotes,
and details of background, and its protagonist, Llewyn Davis
(played by Oscar Isaac) sings songs closely associated with Van
Ronk."
"Seattle Times, "12/15/2013
"[A] delightful, keenly-observed, cantankerous
autobiography...which, if you love 'Inside Llewyn Davis' you owe it
to yourself to read."
"Paste Magazine", 12/12/2013
"[An] acclaimed and enjoyable memoir."
NewYorker.com, 1/22/2014
""The Mayor of MacDougal Street" is one of the dozen best books
ever written about a New York life and time: dense with wisdom,
humor, judgment, and an amazingly vivid recreation of the rites and
rituals and characters of a whole lost world and scene."
NewYorker.com, 9/30/13
"[A] wonderful memoir."
"Slate, " 12/2/13
"Your best guide when it comes to Inside Llewyn Davis--apart from
what follows, of course--is Van Ronk's posthumous memoir, "The
Mayor of MacDougal Street"."
"New York Times", 11/30/13
"[A] sharp cantankerous memoir."
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