Wounds to Bind

Jerry Burgan

doi:10.5771/9780810888623

Summary

The dawn of folk rock comes to life in Jerry Burgan’s unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s and the summer that changed everything.

As a naïve folksinger from Pomona, California, Burgan was thrust to the forefront of the counterculture and its aftermath. The Byrds, the Rolling Stones, the Mamas and Papas, Barry McGuire, Bo Diddley and many others make appearances in this 50th Anniversary reminiscence by the surviving cofounder of WE FIVE, the San Francisco electro-folk ensemble whose million-seller, "You Were On My Mind,” entered the world two months before Bob Dylan plugged in an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival. Vying with the Byrds to record the first folk-rock hit, Burgan and his lifelong friend Mike Stewart embarked on a road they thought well paved by the latter's older brother, Kingston Trio member John Stewart. Little did they realize that they would join the largest-ever American generation in an ecstatic, sometimes tortured, journey of invention and disillusion.

Wounds to Bind bears witness to a lost and hopeful convergence in American history—that missing link between the folk and rock eras—when Bob Dylan and Sammy Davis Jr. were played on the same radio station in the same hour. A survivor of the human realignments, tragedies and triumphs that followed, Burgan tracks down the demons that drove the genius of We Five cofounder Mike Stewart and sheds light on the 40-year enigma of what became of the band’s reclusive lead singer, Beverly Bivens, a forerunner of Grace Slick, Linda Ronstadt, and Stevie Nicks.

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Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-8861-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8108-8862-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 232
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Permissions No access
1. Chapter 1. Foreshocks No access
2. Chapter 2. 1965: When Folk Met Rock No access
3. Chapter 3. 1956: Kids with Guitars No access
4. Chapter 4. The First Time Ever No access
5. Chapter 5. If You’re Going to San Francisco No access
6. Chapter 6. Convergence No access
7. Chapter 7. When I Woke Up This Morning No access
1. Chapter 8. Awe and Shock No access
2. Chapter 9. Trouble Every Day No access
3. Chapter 10. Appalachian Thanksgiving No access
4. Chapter 11. The Lonely Crowd No access
5. Photospread No access
6. Chapter 12. Ad after Ad after Ad No access
7. Chapter 13. C’mon People Now No access
1. Chapter 14. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice No access
2. Chapter 15. Jackpot, Nevada No access
3. Chapter 16. Long Time Gone No access
4. Chapter 17. Wounds Not Bound No access
5. Chapter 18. Funeral for a Friend No access
6. Chapter 19. Folk Songs and Stories No access
Notes No access Pages 211 - 216
Acknowledgments No access Pages 217 - 220
Index No access Pages 221 - 230
About the Authors No access Pages 231 - 232