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The Astrology of Space
Music Career
Michael Erlewine’s career in music started early on,
when he dropped out of high school and hitchhiked to
Venice West, in Santa Monica, California, in an
attempt to catch a ride on the tail end of the Beatnik
era. This was 1960, and he was a little late for that,
but right on time for the folk music revival that was
just beginning to bloom at that time. Like many other
people his age, Erlewine traveled from college center
to center across the nation: Ann Arbor, Berkeley,
Cambridge, and Greenwich Village. There was a wellbeaten
track on which traveled the young folk
musicians of the future.
Erlewine, who also played folk guitar, hitchhiked for a
stint with a young Bob Dylan, and then more
extensively with guitar virtuoso and instrumentalist
Perry Lederman. Erlewine helped to put on Dylan’s
first concert in Ann Arbor. He hung out with people
like Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Joan Baez, The New Lost
City Ramblers, and the County Gentlemen.
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