Guitar village

Here’s songwriter Steve Earle talking in the New Yorker about the role his new home, Greenwich Village, played in American music history:

“This is where they invented what I do. And it happened only because there were these three groups – the folksingers, the musicologists, and the writers – who happened to be living in this several-block radius. If that scene doesn’t happen, then rock and roll never becomes literature. It just stays pop.”

[TJH]