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May 6 1961 – Bob Dylan was at Indian Neck Folk Festival 1961 (18 Photos)

On May 6th 1961, Bob Dylan attended the Indian Neck Folk Festival.

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Bob Dylan sings with Mark Spoelstra, Indian Neck Folk Festival, May 6th, 1961.Bobby Neuwirth in the foreground with the shades. ===== “It was the Sandy Bull connection that brought Bob Neuwirth face to face with Dylan in 1961 at the Indian Neck Folk Festival in Brantford, CT. Bob speaking, “I met Bob Dylan at the first Indian Neck Folk Festival in May 1961.” I was in New York and I went there with Sandy Bull. People came up from New York, and people came down from Cambridge, and there was a big meeting around the beer barrel. Wow! It was intense!” “I remember running into Dylan because he was the only other guy with a harmonica holder around his neck. I remember standing around the beer barrel, and Kweskin and Robert L. Jones and I were singing some Woody Guthrie song. Bob came up and he started playing along with it, and he had another Woody song, and it went from then until dark – obscure Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams songs. It never came apart after that between Dylan and me. Laughed all day. Laughed so hard. That was when Dylan used to get on stage and talk a lot. He’d do more talking than playing. And he was really great. I told him at Indian Neck that he should really come up to Cambridge. “Those of us who read House of Earth will appreciate the Woody Guthrie connection.”
Bob Dylan sings with Mark Spoelstra, Indian Neck Folk Festival, May 6th, 1961.
This is the earliest live Dylan performance available on tape. The fextival took place at the Montowesi Hotel in Branford, Connecticut. It was at this occasion that Dylan first met Bobby Neuwirth. Dylan’s entire set is presented here and it comprises three songs only. The tape starts with Dylan being introduced by someone and ends with the same announcer requesting a banjo and some other instruments for the next act. Dylan is shown to be in the midst of his Woody Guthrie period because all three songs are Guthrie tunes. It’s hard to hear whether or not he did justice to the songs because you can barely hear the vocal even though the guitar comes through loud and clear. The audience is very appreciative, though. Mono audience recording. There are worse sounding live tapes around and for historical purposes this is a must. Not for the casual Dylan listener.
Bob Dylan sings with Mark Spoelstra, Indian Neck Folk Festival, May 6th, 1961. Photograph by Joe Alper.
Boston Folksinger Robert L. Jones in the light colored zip-up jacket standing next to Dylan. Ric Von Schmidt: “The first time I heard about Dylan was through Robert L. Jones, who was my brother-in-law. Robert was a good singer and he was invited down to the Indian Neck Folk Festival that year and when it was over he came back and he said: ‘Hey, there’s this guy down there you really gotta hear. Bob Dylan, he sounds like Woody Guthrie and he sings these funny songs.’ So, sometime in June, Dylan showed up in Cambridge with Jones. Dylan was young and puppy-like and sweet and just real live, open and warm. I felt that very much. We got together at my apartment on Boyleston Street and I played some stuff like He Was A Friend Of Mine … “
Robert Shelton adjusting his glasses over on the left.
Photograph courtesy of Joe Alper. (Prints of it as a 1962 photograph are incorrectly dated.)
The harmonica and its apparatus impressed Bob Neuwirth, who first met Dylan at Indian Neck and would become a sidekick on many tours that decade. Bob and I met at the Indian Neck Folk Festival, put on by a bunch of Yale students,'' Neuwirth recalls on a commentary track accompanying the DVD release of the Dylan documentaryDon’t Look Back.” I remember running into Dylan, because he was the only other guy with a harmonica holder around his neck,'' Neuwirth told Eric Von Schmidt and Jim Rooney for their 1979 book,Baby Let Me Follow You Down.”
Reversed photograph of Bob Dylan at the Indian Neck Folk Festival, May 6th 1961. Used on the cover of Smilin’ Ears magazine. 1961
Anyone know the two unidentified ones between Dylan (left) and Jim Kweskin (right), and Robert L. Jones (far right)? Or should we say three unidentified … that is a real cat perched on the banjo player’s shoulder, no? Jim Kweskin says: “Left to right — Bob Dylan, Jack Parmely (Not sure of the spelling. Could be Parmeley) (Joe Alper photo)
Art Burn: Breakfast and Bob Dylan at Coffee Buzz 2009–03-25
With Mark Spoelstra
Von Schmidt, Eric, and Jim Rooney. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years. Garden City, New York : Anchor Books, 1979. 9780385144568 2nd edition Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.
Reverand Gary Davis at the Indian Neck Folk Festival – May ’61.
Judy Collins at the Indian Neck Folk Festival – May ’61.
Nice place for a folks gathering. Montowese Hotel and spacious grounds,
Montowese House

 

 

 

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