Terri Thal has two passions: folk music and social justice. In a wry, often funny voice, she shares stories of growing up in Brooklyn and as a spokesperson and storyteller for the folk music scene of the 1960s. She became very much part of the 1960s folk music world in Greenwich Village and New York, managing Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk―once her husband ―the Roche sisters, and others. She tells us what it was like to hang out in the Village coffee houses, to host folk singers like Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs who hung out at her apartment, and to be a manager. We hear her view of the 1960s socialist organizations, and how she later merged her professional work in not-for-profit agencies.

This is a personal story of the world of folk music in 1960s New York written by a Jewish woman from Brooklyn who, although not a musician, was an intrinsic part of this scene. Terri describes Greenwich Village as a community that was supportive, musically exciting and one in which people had fun.

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