Author Elizabeth Thomson on her new Joan Baez biography, updating the Dylan/Shelton book, and more (Boston Harold Video Podcast)

Author Elizabeth Thomson on her new Joan Baez biography, updating the Dylan/Shelton book, and more (Boston Harold Video Podcast)

By Harold Lepidus ©  

November 5, 2020

 

On today’s Boston Harold Video Podcast,  my special guest is journalist and author Elizabeth Thomson. 

 

 

Ms Thomson’s accomplishments include restoring critic and mentor Robert Shelton’s original manuscript for his book, No Direction Home - The Life and Music of Bob Dylan; compiling anthologies of writings about Dylan, John Lennon, and David Bowie; her (Covid-excluded) annual Village Trip Festival, which celebrates “the history and heritage of New York’s Greenwich Village;” interviews and articles for numerous publications; and much more, a list of which which can be found on her website.  

 


I first interviewed Ms Thomson in 2011 about the expanded Shelton biography of Dylan - which was included in my book, Friends and Other Strangers: Bob Dylan Examined. This time, we talked about how she became a journalist and author, how she discovered folk music, her new biography, Joan Baez - The Last Leaf,  updating Robert Shelton’s Dylan book for 2021, plans for an upcoming memoir of Club 47 staff member - and Joan Baez's college roommate - Betsy Siggins, the Village Trip Festival, and since this was conducted the day after the U.S. Presidential election, politics. 



 

Joan Baez - The Last Leaf was recently published by Palazzo Editions, and features an extensive discography by Arthur Levy. 


 

Video recorded November 4, 2020.


Enjoy the interview! 


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