![]() Bobbie Ann Mason in her 1999 memoir Clear Springs writes of hearing "beatnik poetry" at the Gaslight in the early 1960s.An array of musicians also performed at the club in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Odetta, Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bonnie Raitt, Reverend Gary Davis, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Big Mama Thornton, Link Wray, Mimi Fariña, jazz musician Charles Mingus, Happy Traum and Artie Traum, Doug Kershaw, Bob Neuwirth, David Bromberg, David Buskin, Janis Siegel (who later joined The Manhattan Transfer), and others. ![]() Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton sat in together for a week at the Gaslight with John Hammond Jr. Mississippi John Hurt and Jesse Fuller ("Lone Cat") played there. The first public "electric" appearance of The Blues Project (with Danny Kalb) took place at the club. 1964–1966 saw many early performances by Richie Havens, Jose Feliciano, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Eddie Mottau, Eric Andersen, John Herald, Ralph Rinzler, The Greenbriar Boys, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Carolyn Hester, Elizabeth Cotten and Dave Van Ronk. Notable performers Īmong those who performed at the Gaslight were Bill Cosby Bob Dylan Joni Mitchell (her first ever appearance in NYC, in 1966, with Chuck Mitchell) Luke Faust, a five-string banjo player and singer who sang Appalachian ballads Len Chandler Paul Clayton Luke Askew Wavy Gravy Bruce Springsteen. So then the audience couldn't applaud they had to snap their fingers instead."īrian Fallon, the lead singer and guitarist of The Gaslight Anthem, has said that the band's name came from The Gaslight Cafe as he had heard it was one of the first places that Bob Dylan had played and liked the sound of the word and the imagery it brought about. In the Folk Music Encyclopedia, Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton wrote "The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. Live at The Gaslight 1962 (2005), a single CD release including ten songs from early Dylan performances at the club, was released by Columbia Records. Also nearby was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene. The club was next door and down the stairs from the street-level bar, the Kettle of Fish, where many performers hung out between sets, including Bob Dylan. įolk musician and actor Gil Robbins worked as the club's manager in the late 1960s. The club was run by Betty Smyth, mother of Scandal lead singer Patty Smyth, and blues guitarist/performer Susan Martin until it closed in 1971. Ed Simon, the owner of The Four Winds, reopened the Gaslight in 1968. Moyant's father-in-law, Clarence Hood, and his son, Sam, managed the club through the late 1960s. Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, the Gaslight showcased beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso but later became a folk-music club. The Gaslight was originally a "basket house" where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set and hope to be paid. ![]() Also known as The Village Gaslight, it opened in 1958 and became notable as a venue for folk music and other musical acts. Nice vibes here & a concept we admire – this is a cafe worth checking out.The Gaslight Cafe was a coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. Coffee & tea, chips & nuts are offered too. Simple warm meals may be available eventually (Johann promises an all-day Big Breakfast), but for now, the ‘healthy biscotti’ – made with ingredients like almonds, hazelnuts & seeds – are a delicious snack (RM3). The menu is modest but enjoyable – Gaslight’s founder Johann Sultan, the singer-songwriter of Malaysian indie band The Cotton Field Scarecrowes, makes a mean ‘moonshine’ – Irish coffee (RM18) actually – & very decent Old Fashioned (RM20). We’d love to see a screening of Inside Llewyn Davis here someday. There’s also a book exchange section, & naturally, a corner where guitar-strumming musicians perform & poets hold court on some nights. Gaslight Cafe is a real refuge from the modern world – hidden in a second-floor lot in Plaza Damansara, this is a shadowy space where vinyl LPs (Peter, Paul And Mary Joan Baez even Nick Drake) occupy a place of pride alongside vintage portraits of Simon & Garfunkel. Talk about a throwback: Taking inspiration from the Greenwich Village coffee house that became a focal point for folk music in 1960s New York, Bukit Damansara’s new Gaslight Cafe is an atmospheric venue that seeks to capture the essence of the era when Bob Dylan first warned of battles outside ragin’ & old roads rapidly agin’.
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