Bob Gibson I Come for to Sing The Stops Along the Way of a Folk Music Legend

"In 1953 a young man named Bob Gibson, inspired by a meeting with Pete Seeger, left behind a successful job to hit the road collecting folk songs. When he emerged, banjo in hand, ready to share what he'd found, he created an electricity the world of folk music had never seen. His arrangements, songwriting, and musical innovations took his audiences by storm, lighting the fire that led to the full-blown folk revival of the late 1950s to mid-1960s. He introduced Joan Baez in 1959, Judy Collins in 1960, and the album Gibson & Camp at the Gate of Horn in 1961, creating musical history."Bob co-wrote 'Abilene,' 'Well, Well, Well,' and 'You Can Tell the World.' His songs have been recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary, Simon & Garfunkel, the Byrds, the Smothers Brothers, the Kingston Trio, and countless others. He is credited as being an influence on most of the performers who came out of the folk-revival era, and that impact is still felt in most of today's popular music. He should have been folk music's biggest star, yet his name and story are sadly unknown by most. Out of personal frustration at the lack of information about him, I approached Bob Gibson in the last year of his life with an offer to help tell his story."--Carole Bender"In 1974 when doing publicity for my father's album Funky in the Country, I was fortunate to have mentors at the Old Town School explaining how to do it. Hamilton Camp helped too, giving me an earful one day at the cafe under the El tracks, when I showed him my first draft of the bio. He jumped up out of the booth, so frustrated that he was hopping up and down and hollering, 'You just don't get it! Your father was not an influence! He invented folk music!'"I'm so glad to hear my dad's voice again, and I do hear it. Carole has done such a fabulous job of capturing his speech. He sounds like he's well again. Carole's offer was what he wanted and needed. Carole has not only gotten his story, she got his cadence. And I think he knew she would." --Meridian GreenGibson, Bob is the author of 'Bob Gibson I Come for to Sing The Stops Along the Way of a Folk Music Legend' with ISBN 9781565549081 and ISBN 1565549082.