Grab Your Edition Baby Let Me Follow You Down Developed By Eric Von Schmidt Published As Digital Edition

is a great history of the folk scene in Cambridge during the beginning of the

folk music boom,
I arrived in Cambridge too late to experience this, but I did catch the tail end, . . what a time A detailed and engrossing tale of the birth, growth, and dissipation of the Cambridgebased folk scene, The birth of the careers of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter Wolf, Bonnie Raitt, and more make for very good reading, There are lots of great pictures, but one distracting thing is it is hard to tell who is speaking when the authors inssert one of the many prinary history sources.
Long out of print, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is a classic in the history of American popular culture, The book tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the lates to the heyday of the folk music revival in the earlys.
Hundreds of historical photographs, rescreened for this edition, and dozens of interviews combine to recreate the years when Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a lively band of Cambridge folksingers led a generation in the rediscovery of American folk music.


Compiled by two musicians who were active participants in the Cambridge folk scene, the volume documents a special time in United States culture when the honesty and vitality of traditional folk music were combined with the raw power of urban blues and the high energy of electric rock and roll to create a new American popular music.
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