In Passing

Author : News Master Published: February 15, 2019

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Izzy Young, who has died aged 90, was a key figure in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene in the 1950s and 1960s when he launched a young aspiring singer-songwriter called Bob Dylan on his musical career by underwriting his first major concert in New York. Lanky and thin with mischievous eyes and a gruff Bronx-Jewish accent (“like a bulldozer”, wrote Dylan), Young, a trenchant columnist for the folk magazine Sing Out! and the owner of the Folklore Center on MacDougal Street, gave early breaks to a whole generation of folk singers, from Odetta to Joni Mitchell and a young Patti Smith, and became friends with such figures as Woody Guthrie, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Josh White, the Rev Gary Davis – and Dylan. The Telegraph, London

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