The Real Life Figures Who Inspired the Coen Brothers New Movie, Inside Llewyn Davis

(In Focus) Folk Revival Images By David Gahr:
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From the David Gahr Archives and DavidGahr.com, a gallery of the mavericks of the American Folk Music Revival and images of Greenwich Village circa1961 that served as the inspiration for the Coen Brothers new folk noir film and soundtrack, Inside Llewyn Davis.

Included here are such seminal figures on the folk music scene as Dave Van Ronk, Len Chandler, composer of Green, Green Rocky Road, Hedy West, composer of 500 Miles, Tom Paxton, composer of The Last Thing on My Mind, Mike Seeger and John Cohen’s old-timey music group, The New Lost City Ramblers, and the traditional Irish singing group, The Clancy Brothers. Also. here are the figures behind the music, such as music impresario Albert Grossman (Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Odetta, Janis Joplin), rhythm and blues composer Doc Pomus, and Folkways Records founder Moe Asch.

David Gahr’s lens on the folk music scene of the 1950s and ’60s in Greenwich Village and the historic Newport Folk Festivals provided the music and the period with indelible, iconic images remembered by an older generation of folk music fans who were there, and serve as historic record for new generations discovering folk music and the roots of the singer songwriter in the legacy of the folk music revival.