Why Barbara Dane Did Not Sign Up With Dylan Manager Grossman In 1960's

U.S.Jazz, Blues and Folk Singer Barbara Dane in 1960 (wikicommons)

In a 1991 interview, 20th-century and 21st-century U.S. jazz, blues and folk singer Barbara Dane indicated why--unlike Bob Dylan--she did not agree to team up with hip capitalist manager Albert Grossman, during the early 1960's folk music boom:

"...Al Grossman was starting to build his stable of people and he brought me to, essentially brought me to the first Newport festival for the purpose of, sort of, you know, let’s see if it’ll fly here. And after that he proposed that I sign up with him. But he laid the cards right out there.

"He says, `look you know you got all this political stuff that you want to do, and you got your children, and you got your family life, and you got all this and you want a career besides.' But he says `you got to decide which it is you’re really gonna do. And, you know, if you make, if you decide it’s really gonna be the career, well, we can do business.'

" And I knew right then and there that we were not gonna be a team…."