What was also lost along the way was the notion that the Village music scene was cool.
But the Sunday afternoon hootenannies around the Washington Square Park foundation were over.
The Gaslight Cafe and others were long gone.
The Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ is renewing interest in New York’s Greenwich Village.Macall Polay/Searchlight Pictures
The new question blowing in the wind: Why now?
You could start with the music.
(On TikTok, check out one ofthe many covers ofMaggie Roches Hammond Song by various all-women choirs.)
People are smoking and drinking.
No one has a cell phone.
Evoke that imagery to anyone born this century and youll be greeted with hungry, yearning nods.
Besides, music scenes pop up where and when you least expect them.
