Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene

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Including over 200 of Flerlage's photographs of folk musicians during the 1960s, Chicago Folk presents a stunning portrait of a vibrant urban folk milieu. Featuring popular performers such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, as well as old and new traditional musicians like the New Lost City Ramblers and other blues, bluegrass, old-time, Cajun and gospel performers who appeared in Chicago, these images capture the broad scope of folk musicians who were part and parcel of the 1960s folk music revival in Chicago and elsewhere.

Raeburn Flerlage was an acclaimed photographer of the Chicago Blues scene. His work has appeared in magazines such as "Blues Access," "DownBeat," "Living Blues," and "Sing Out!"; books including "Blues Legends" and "Who's Who in the Blues"; and on record covers for Chess, Delmark, and RCA record labels. Ronald D. Cohen is the author of "Folk Music: The Basics" and "A History of Folk Music Festivals in the United States" and a professor emeritus of history at Indiana University. He lives in Gary, Indiana. Bob Riesman is the author of the forthcoming biography "I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy." He lives in Chicago.

"A Treasure that eloquently documents our folk heroes from a long-gone era." -- Sing Out!