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.
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