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He asked for certain songs
and I'd play them.
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I was young and impressionable
and I think I must have been shocked...
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in some kind of way
to find him where I found him.
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Brother John Sellers, he was the
master of ceremonies at Gerde's Folk City.
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And there was one night called
Hootenanny Night where anybody could play.
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We'd go down there every Monday night.
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Peter LaFarge, who was
sort of a cowboy/Indian...
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and Cisco Houston.
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A lot of the old Woody Guthrie crowd
was still hanging out there.
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We just watched and we picked out
the performers that were doing it for real...
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and tried to pick up what the essence
of what they were doing was.
:46:20
All of us were interested in seeing
what the other guy was doing onstage...
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because there was
a lot more to be learned...
:46:26
than just songs or picking styles.
:46:38
Dave Van Ronk,
he had that big gruff thing...
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but he had this very sweet, sensitive thing
going on at the same time.
:46:45
He was a dichotomy of a performer.
:46:52
He could take the essence of the song...
:46:54
and only go after that,
not go after the frills.
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On Monday nights,
Bob Dylan used to come over there...