I remember my first meeting with Terri Thal. She was preparing for the publication of her new book. She had titled it, MY GREENWICH VILLAGE, Dave, Bob and Me It's release coincided roughly with the movie about Bob Dylan's Life, A Complete Unknown. The movie was three hours long and ,yes, Timothée Chalamet did all the playing and singing himself. I asked. But if you've got three hours to spend, I'd just buy Terri's book. If you go to a movie that's 3 hours long, chances are you won't be able to stand up afterwards and people look at you funny if you keep sitting in your chair.

Terri and I had not met previously but were both very interested in the prime days of folk music. Terri Thal was very much a part of the folk music world in 1960s Greenwich Village, New York. Few people know that she was 21-year-old Bob Dylan’s first manager prior to his contract with Albert Grossman and Columbia Records. She also managed musician Dave Van Ronk (who later became her husband), and others to include the Roche sisters, Paul Geremia and The Holy Modal Rounders.

The book 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.

When i met Terri last week to prepare for the interview, she was in that new, questioning mood. She wanted, she said, to decide what there was for a woman past 50 to look forward to, in a world skewed away from women. Writer Robert Tompkins joined our group revealed that he has begun to learn to play the mouth organ because he has found that when he has a tough to solve problem. doing something different often helps, and sure enough, in no time at all, ideas were flying - and so we decided that we'd meet again in two months with some brand new ideas.

Be sure to join us, and if you have some ideas you'd let us to cast a bit of light on. She didn't want to do another book that required the research Dave, Bob, and Me had required. And she wanted to make a difference in the world.

So we invite you to join in the ideas and be sure to listen to our December podcast and let us know if you have any ideas. We'll see that Terri gets them. Let us know if you need ideas too. We'll keep you posted.

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