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In 1960, burgeoning actress and defiant dreamer Lena Spencer opened a small, grassroots coffeehouse in the quaint upstate New York town of Saratoga Springs. Within her then-husband’s plan to start the Caffè as a means for the couple to artistically flourish while “making enough money to retire in Europe” lay the seed of a more impactful cultural contribution that would change music history forever. It was a time in America when a coffeehouse could be something more—a focal point for a different sort of people, radical new ideas, and notably, emerging artists. Caffè Lena’s humble stage regularly welcomed musicians such as a young Bob Dylan in 1961, the singer/activist Bernice Johnson Reagon in 1962, and a pre-”American Pie” Don McLean in 1965. Quickly, Caffè Lena took its place among the nation’s foremost incubators of an American folk movement that inspired a generation of musicians, artists, and thinkers and a country in need of a new vision of equality, freedom, and understanding.
Fortunately for posterity, camera shutters were often snapping in time to the music, and so an intimate visual record of Caffè Lena’s early years exists. Now, thanks to years of dedicated digging by the Caffè Lena History Project—to unearth Lena’s secret memoirs, collaborating with photographers to identify and rescue mysterious negatives, and collecting stories from the original artists to highlight these materials—the time has come to share this treasure trove of authentic and rare Americana with the world. Caffè Lena: Inside America’s Legendary Folk Music Coffeehouse brings more than 200 never before seen, evocative images and stories to the public. Early 1960s photographs of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger and modern-day images of Rufus Wainwright and Patty Larkin blend with rare memorabilia and an oral history derived from more than 100 original interviews of artists who have graced Caffè Lena’s stage over the decades, including Ani DiFranco, Utah Phillips, Dave Van Ronk, Spalding Gray, and other luminaries of the folk, blues, jazz, and theater worlds.
This exclusive time capsule chronicling the heyday of Caffè Lena—now the country’s oldest continuously operational folk music coffeehouse—provides an insightful look at the many artists whose poetic lyrics cast a mesmerizing spell over a generation, and who remain beloved today.
Alongside the release of Caffè Lena: Inside America’s Legendary Folk Music Coffeehouse, San Francisco’s Tompkins Square label will release the 3-CD box set, ‘Live at Caffè Lena: Music From America’s Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967–2013′ on September 24, 2013.
“Caffè Lena holds an important place in the folk and traditional music communities. For me it was the gateway to so many things I hold dear about music.”
—Scott Goldman, The GRAMMY Foundation
“The story of Caffè Lena is the secret history of the folk-music scene. Lena was a pioneering woman in a man's world and her story needs to be told.”
—Holly George-Warren, The Road to Woodstock
“Lena Spencer was a rare person with a shining spirit who created a small world of her own. The magic of her Caffè cannot be analyzed, computerized, or explained.”
—David Amram, Musician
- Sales Rank: #2815914 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-13
- Released on: 2015-01-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.01" h x .88" w x 8.24" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
Review
"The legendary venue-America's oldest continuously operating folk-music coffeehouse-is celebrated in...Caffe Lena, an illustrated oral history."
-People
"The book’s very existence highlights one of the little-told stories of the folk movement: its spread beyond the well-trod centers of Greenwich Village, Boston and San Francisco into Middle America."
-The New York Times
"Joe Alper's photographs blend with rare memorabilia and an oral history derived from more than 100 original interviews of artists who have performed on Caffe Lena's stage over the decades."
-The Saratogian
About the Author
Jocelyn Arem is a folklorist, producer, consultant, and musician, who played her first professional gig on Caffè Lena’s legendary stage. Inspired by the Caffè’s history, she began to document the legacy and cultural impact of the venue and its founder. The publishing of this remarkable collection of stories and images is the culmination of Arem’s decade-long work as Director of the Caffè Lena History Project in association with the Library of Congress and in collaboration with Caffè Lena Inc. Her writing appears in the American Folklife Center News, The Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, and Boston Beats magazine, and her research has been featured on NPR, NBC, CBS, ABC, in American Airlines Magazine, and at GRAMMY week in Los Angeles. In partnership with Magic Shop Studio and the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC, she is producing a boxed set of original Caffè Lena recordings and an exhibition of Joe Alper’s Caffè Lena photographs to accompany the release of the book.
Joe Alper (1925–1968) is responsible for widely recognized and historic jazz, folk, and blues performance photography, including candid shots of the folk revival and the civil rights era. Joe and his wife, Jackie Gibson Alper, played a key role in supporting Lena Spencer and her Caffè, often housing musicians at their nearby home in Schenectady, New York. Jackie’s musical/political career included singing with the original Almanac Singers, becoming the fifth member of the original Weavers folksinging group, befriending Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, and hosting WRPI’s Mostly Folk radio show from 1971–1993.
Joseph Deuel has been an avid photographer since grade school. He discovered Caffè Lena during high school in the early 1970s and has been taking photos there ever since. Many of these photos have found their way to nationally distributed CD covers and magazines. Mr. Deuel has been a frequent sound engineer at Caffè Lena since the late 1980s.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Large format companion book to three CD audio collection
By Steve Ramm
This review repeats some of the words from my review of "Live at Caffe Lena", a CD collection (also highly recommended).
Though it's hours away from Greenwich Village, the upstate town of Saratoga Springs is as important a link in the folk music chain. That's because, in 1960, Lena Spencer opened her coffee house , Caffe Lena, and provided a place to allow new singer songwriters (and some old ones too!) to perform their music, share it with the local college kids and even bed down for a night or two. The venue is still going after more than 50 years and, thanks to folklorist (and, most of all, music lover) Jocelyn Aren, we can all see, read about and hear ( on the CD collection mentioned above) some of the historic performers over the last 46 years.
Ten years ago Arem began documenting the coffee house and, with grant funding began the Caffe Lena History Project. Gathering programs and wall posters and seeking out stories from artists who played there over the years, she began work on this book. Actually it was Lena herself - who died in 1989 - who planned to write a book about coffee house (long before Starbucks gave a new definition to that designation). Arem begins and ends this 288-page oversize volume with Spencer's own essays - from the draft of the book she planned to produce. After an introduction to set the stage, so to speak, Arem turns it over to the performers who played the Caffe to tell the story. Divided into "decades", Arem gives us interview comments from a wide range of talents (both well-known and more regional) such as Dave Van Ronk, Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul & Mary fame; Stookey was doing standup comedy in his early Lena days!), Don McLean, many Wainwrights (Louden III, Rufus and Martha) Michael Cooney, Livingston Taylor and - of course - Pete Seeger. Even jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and monologist Spalding Gray are here. When the performer was not available, a number are deceased, a relative tells the story. Each story is accompanied by wonderful black and white photographs, most - but not all - taken by Joe Alper as well as ephemera such as early concert posters.
If, like me, you were there during the "folk era" of the 1960s and early 70s, you'll find a lot of wonderful stories and images in this volume that will bring back memories. This volume and the CD box both go hand-in-hand and, hopefully will allow Arem project to release more of the 700+ recordings in its collection.
I hope you found this review both informative and helpful.
Steve Ramm
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A work of art!
By Dr. Dave
Any fan of Caffe Lena, folk music, or Saratoga Springs, New York, has to own this book. The culmination of Jocelyn's Caffe Lena History Project is not only an excellent photographic history of a national treasure, it is a great read from the perspective of those who played and volunteered at the Caffe over the past 53 years. This excellent book is more than a coffee table decoration; it is an education and a testament to a place where you can feel as though history is being made in your own living room. Better yet, what's represented here also has its own section in the Library of Congress!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Essential book for anyone interested in 20th and 21st Century American folk music
By ChristineLavin
There is also a companion box set of music. Anyone interested in American folk music of the 20th and 21st Century should have this book in their home library. It's beautifully done -- wonderful photos and stories from people like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Dave Van Ronk, and so many others.
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