the show, The Incredible String Band came over from England with their manager, Joe Boyd, Happy and Artie Traum often stopped by before heading back to Woodstock.
After Arlo Guthrie debuted his classic, Alice Restaurant in 1966, hundreds of people called asking where they could buy the record. Arlo didn even have a recording contract yet. Bob knew Dave Van Ronk, from the Village folk scene, from Conrad shop. (They shared a birthday and Fass remembers they once celebrated by sneaking into the Carmine Street Pool after dark.) Garland Jeffreys, Buzzy Linhardt and Moogy Klingman are hometown guys who still make repeat visits.
Others who have made the scene over the decades include Taj Mahal, Paul Siebel, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Skip James, Rosalie Sorrels, Tiny Tim with his ukulele, Jake & the Family Jewels, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Melanie,