The Great Lost Folk Memoir: The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk’s The Mayor of MacDougal Street is a constructed autobiography, pieced together by the singer’s friend and admirer Elijah Wald after Van Ronk died of cancer in 2002. Elijah Wald is a roots-music scholar who has also written books like How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll: An … Read the rest