Baby, Let Me Follow You Down: The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years

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Long out of print, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is a classic within the history of American pop culture. The book tells the tale of the folks music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses within the overdue 1950s to the heyday of the folks music revival within the early 1960s. Hundreds of historical photographs, rescreened for this edition, and dozens of interviews combine to re-create the years when Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a full of life band of Cambridge folksingers led a generation within the rediscovery of American folk music.

Compiled by two musicians who were active participants within the Cambridge folk scene, the quantity documents a unique 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 electrical rock and roll to create a brand new American popular music.

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