{"id":48948,"date":"2016-12-19T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=48948"},"modified":"2016-12-17T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T08:00:28","slug":"17-05-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=48948","title":{"rendered":"Settled in Sweden, the Man Who First Booked Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Settled in Sweden, the Man Who First Booked Dylan<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

REBECCA ROSMAN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Israel Young, known as Izzy, at his store in Stockholm. Mr. Young arranged Bob Dylan’s first concert in New York City in 1961.\/Casper Hedberg for The New York Times<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

STOCKHOLM \u2014 Bob Dylan won\u2019t be visiting Sweden this week to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he has sent a speech in his absence. The news of his no-show at the ceremony on Saturday disappointed fans \u2014 as well as one resident here who has old ties to rock\u2019s poet laureate: Israel Goodman Young, the man who gave Mr. Dylan his first New York concert.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Young was the folk enthusiast who made possible the $2 tickets to Mr. Dylan\u2019s Nov. 4, 1961, gig at Carnegie Chapter Hall; only about 50 people attended, but the event has earned its place in rock \u2019n\u2019 roll history as Mr. Dylan\u2019s first big break.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Young has lived in Sweden for more than 35 years and, at 88, takes a bus and a train every day to reach his Folklore Centrum in the S\u00f6dermalm neighborhood of Stockholm. Part performance space, part treasure trove of memorabilia, this modest shop could be mistaken for an old living room, with dust blanketing the used hardcovers lining the shelves. This emporium is his second act; its first iteration on Macdougal Street was the epicenter of Greenwich Village\u2019s 1960s folk music scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Young, known as Izzy, said that he didn\u2019t regret being associated with that seminal show, but that he wished people\u2019s memories of his career went beyond it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan \u201cis the only thing people remember me for,\u201d he said with a shrug as he recounted their relationship one recent afternoon at his store.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Dylan was a regular customer at Mr. Young\u2019s original Folklore Center, and his little-known song \u201cTalking Folklore Center\u201d described the lure of the place.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHis voice was like a bulldozer and always seemed too loud for the little room,\u201d Mr. Dylan wrote of Mr. Young in his 2004 memoir, \u201cChronicles.\u201d \u201cIzzy was always a little rattled over something or other. He was sloppily good-natured. In reality, a romantic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Two years ago, when John Schulman, a book collector in Pittsburgh, sought rare archives documenting the 1960s New York folk scene, he contacted Mr. Young to see if he would sell some items he had collected \u2014 perhaps books, manuscripts, photographs or tape recordings \u2014 to the Library of Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then, a friend of Mr. Young\u2019s intervened.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI said, listen, that\u2019s not what\u2019s valuable here,\u201d recalled Edward Bromberg, who first met Mr. Young in Stockholm more than 30 years ago. Mr. Bromberg told Mr. Schulman of Mr. Young\u2019s diaries, which included details from that folk scene that are otherwise inaccessible. \u201cHe\u2019s the Samuel Pepys of the Village,\u201d Mr. Bromberg said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Mr. Young, around 1960, at his Folklore Center at 110 Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village.\/David Gahr, via Library of Congress<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

read more: Settled in Sweden, the Man Who First Booked Dylan<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Settled in Sweden, the Man Who First Booked Dylan REBECCA ROSMAN Israel Young, known as Izzy, at his store in Stockholm. Mr. Young arranged Bob Dylan’s first concert in New York City in 1961.\/Casper Hedberg for The New York Times STOCKHOLM \u2014 Bob Dylan won\u2019t be visiting Sweden this week to accept the Nobel Prize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49022,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48948\/revisions\/49022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}