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Michael Lang (2013)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 9 October 2013

The man who produced the Woodstock festival talks about the importance of its name; moving to the town in 1968; the major figures around town: The Band, Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman; the notable people and places in the vicinity, including Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin and Fred Neil; the relationship between town and festival; his Just Sunshine label and its abiding cult signing Karen Dalton; the town's incestuousness; the Bearsville label and studio, and Todd Rundgren; the 1994 festival... and Woodstock today.

File format: mp3; file size: 65.2mb, interview length: 1h 07' 55" sound quality: ***

Bob Dylan: Going Up the Country: Woodstock's Post-Dylan influx

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Small Town Talk' (Faber), February 2016

BOB DYLAN WASN'T the only artistic giant to seek sanctuary in the Catskill Mountains in the 1960s. Just as the singer had fled controversy and ...

Woodstock

Report by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1994

Barney Hoskyns visits the idyllic Catskill mountain retreat colonized by The Band, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and fellow bohemians. ...

Bob Dylan, Peter Yarrow: "The Greatest Place": Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman put down country roots in Woodstock

Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Small Town Talk' (Faber), February 2016

BY THE TIME Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' In The Wind' was turbo-charging the folk-protest movement in the summer of 1963, his manger Albert Grossman had become ...

David Bowie, Suede, Slade, T. Rex, Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Gary Glitter, Roxy Music, New York Dolls, Runaways, The, Joan Jett, Morrissey, Jobriath, Lou Reed, Goldfrapp: Various Artists: Oh Yes We Can Love – A History Of Glam Rock

Sleeve notes by Barney Hoskyns, Universal Records, August 2013

GLAMOUR HAS always been pivotal to pop music. Elvis Presley was Glam, and so were Little Richard ('Ooh My Soul') and Billy Fury ('Jealousy'). The ...