Carolyn Hester (born January 28, 1937) is an American folk singer and songwriter. She was a figure in the early 1960s folk music revival. (More from Wikipedia)
Richard Fariña was among the early folk singers in the Greenwich Village scene at the beginning of the 1960’s. He met and married folksinger Carolyn Hester after they had known each other just 18 days. Her third album and first for Columbia Records, Carolyn Hester (1961) featured then little-known Bob Dylan on harmonica on several tracks (credited as Blind Boy Grunt).
(March 2015)
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As I wrote about Bob Dylan in my last post, his first album, Bob Dylan sold modestly; and Dylan became known as “Hammond’s Folly” around Columbia Records – John H. Hammond had decided to sign Dylan on the spot after hearing him perform on September 14, 1961 at the apartment of Carolyn Hester and Richard Fariña (two folksingers that I also wrote about last month), though he evidently made a formal audition first (no recorded evidence of that audition survives, unfortunately).
(April 2015/1)
