Library Rock's Backpages

The Rascals and the Rock-Soul Explosion

Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, October 2019

THE SEPTEMBER 2014 event at NYU's Provincetown Playhouse was formally billed as a Songwriters Hall of Fame Master Session, but when it concluded with John Sebastian playing harmonica as Felix Cavaliere sang 'Groovin'' from behind his keyboard, not a few older attendees were subtly dabbing away tears, like guys dragged by their dates to see The Fault In Our Stars. It was that kind of night; about a hundred people gathered in lower Manhattan, mere steps from where the Night Owl Cafe once stood, to watch the singer-songwriters from the Lovin' Spoonful and the Rascals tell stories to interviewer Phil Galdston.

Total word count of piece: 2655

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.