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Lot #5145
Sing Out and Living Blues Magazine and Booklet Archive

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Tony Glover’s archive of various blues, folk, and rock music-related literature, which consists mostly of booklets, magazines, and newsletters from the 1960s and 1970s, and is highlighted by a collection of 58 issues of Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine, dating from 1960 to 1976, which includes a handful of duplicates, and a collection of 26 issues of Living Blues Magazine, dating from 1970 to 2004, which includes issue Nos. 1 and 2.

The archive also includes: 28 copies of “The Little Black Book” by Ron McElderry, published by the Little Sandy Review Press in 1960; 16 issues of Sweet Potato from 1979 and 1981, with covers featuring Jim Carroll and William S. Burroughs; eight (8) copies of ‘That Ain’t Quite What I Meant, Babe,’ The Blues Taken Literally by Tony Glover and Ted Shields, published by Mad Dog Press in 1963; 11 issues of In-Beat magazine dating between 1966 and 1969, with covers featuring Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and James Brown; four (4) copies of the July 1965 issue of Folk Scene, No. 9; two (2) issues of Rolling Stone from May 27, 1971; two (2) issues of The New SuperRegion, No. 3, Summer 1964; two (2) issues of the International Musician from May 1966; and over 100 articles and interview transcripts, originals and copies, for bands and musicians like Bob Dylan, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Waylon Jennings, Eric Clapton, The Stooges, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Huddie ‘Leadbelly’ Ledbetter, Duane Allman, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Patti Smith, Sandy Bull, Jim Carroll, William S. Burroughs, Ry Cooder, Traffic, John Hammond, Doug Kershaw, Claudia Lennear, Todd Rundgren, and many more, with several bearing Glover’s handwritten notations.

The archive also features random programs and publications like: Blues Unlimited, Blues Revue, Connie’s Insider, Eye Magazine, Hit Parader, Metanoia, The Music Journal, Popular Music and Society (1972), Twin Citian, The Walker Art Center, The Ann Arbor 1972 Jazz and Blues Festival, The 1965 Philadelphia Folk Festival, The 1971 Mariposa Folk Festival, and Songs of the Workers (29th edition). In overall very good to fine condition.

From the Tony Glover Collection.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Marvels of Modern Music
  • Dates: #596 - Ended November 19, 2020