Tony Glover's original vintage Broadside sheet music booklet, issue No. 35, eight pages, 8.5 x 11, dated November 20, 1963, with front cover featuring lyrics and music for 'The Faucets Are Dripping' by Malvina Reynolds. Most notably the booklet contains lyrics for a song by Bob Dylan entitled ‘—for Dave Glover,’ which reads, in part: “Dave Glover—harmonica sidekick an guitar pardner / Dave Glover—best friend in the highest form / Dave Glover—true rebel an unconscious outlaw / Dave Glover—ramblin do-gooder a the best breed / Dave Glover—who knew me before I hit or got hit by New York City / Dave Glover—who's everythin I stand for or am a part of.” The booklet also contains lyrics and music by Tom Paxton, Gene Kadish, Dayle Stanley, Phil Ochs, and Bill Frederick. In fine condition. Originally written as a letter from Dylan to his friend Tony Glover, the poem '—for Dave Glover’ was instead included as a poem in the original program for the 1963 Newport Folk Festival.
In an interview for the documentary No Direction Home, Glover recalls the reason why his name made it into the Newport Festival program: ‘[Dylan] mentioned that on that visit when he came back. He said, yeah, I wrote you a letter. I said, oh, did you mail it? And he said, well, no. I said, what happened? He said, well, they called me up and they wanted something for the Newport Book, and they needed it like in a week, and I didn’t have it. I said, well, I don’t have anything. And they said, well, anything, have you got anything laying around, is there anything you started? He said, well, I got this letter I was writing to a friend of mine. And they said, well, great. So, actually about the first two lines of that are actually a letter to me as this pretext for writing this sort of recapitulation about where he is, and what he’s doing, and what he’s been up to. That was cool. I didn’t mind. It was okay. It was kind of weird.’
From the Tony Glover Collection.
