Remembering The Little Sandy Review
In the early 1960s, The Little Sandy Review, edited by Jon Pancake and Paul Nelson, out of Dinkeytown in Minneapolis, was the most intelligent, hippest music magazine going. There couldn't have been more than a few hundred readers of the magazine that Pancake and Nelson clearly produced on a shoestring budget. I saw copies at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles in 1963 and quickly became an early subscriber- probably one of a couple hundred. The magazine's politics- though they would have probably denied they had any- and tastes (the New Lost City Ramblers, traditional music, bits of early Dylan, the Ginger Man, the films of Bergman, etc.) would rub off on me, and serve me well in the years to come. Here is an excellent history of the magazine by David Lightbourne. And there's more to come.http://www.facebook.com/facebook-widgets/share.php
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I'm positive that I have some copies either in a box in my basement or at our cottage on Lake Winnipeg. During the 1960s the manager of a left-wing bookstore named Coop Books used to promote folk music shows and bring in small publications such as this about the music scene. He probably got this one because of our proximity to Minneapolis where some of the artists performed before comimg north. I thought about that bookstore and the concerts for the first time in years just the other day when I read that Pete Seeger would be on Public TV next Monday.
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