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Host Robert Sutton you have a new book out titled nazis on the potomac. What is the basic story you were telling . This is a story that could have very well disappeared. During world war ii in fort hunt, most people consider fort hunt a picnic park, it is halfway between alexandria and mount vernon on the George Washington parkway, but during world war ii it became the site of three programs that were topsecret, that were so topsecret that the people who were involved in the program were sworn to secrecy and assumed they would carry the story with them to the grave, and most of them unfortunat...

By 1961, Joan Baez, the dark-haired waif who had captured the spotlight at the first Newport Folk Festival just two years earlier, was folk music's virginal superstar, leading the coffeehouse culture of a new American generation. And an unknown, unwashed, Woody Guthrie—worshiping kid from the Minnesota suburbs named Bob Dylan had just arrived in Greenwich Village. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Positively 4th Street, DAVID HAJDU recalls the prickly beginnings of the Baez-Dylan relationship, the strange symbiosis between her voice and his music, and the triumphant, magi...

The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself

A singer who performed alongside Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, he was known for his topical songs, some of which he wrote in minutes.

Music may be the glue of every NYC underground scene 'This Must Be the Place' covers, but Jesse Rifkin’s primary interest is in the community held together by that glue.