Woodstock, the music mogul, Dylan and Joplin
Music: Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns, Faber & Faber, hdbk, 440 pages, €26.50
Nicholas Blincoe on a book about folk and rock'n'roll's Citizen Kane and the musicians' paradise that destroyed him and many of his inner circle of stars
The small town of Woodstock is a two-hour drive from New York, in the Catskill Mountains. It has been a retreat for artists since a Manchester mill-owner's son created a colony there in 1902, inspired by the Arts and Craft movement.
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