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Speaker 1: You can't play around. Hi. This is Buzznight, the host

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Speaker 1: of the Taken a Walk podcast series. In our special

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Speaker 1: New York City Greenwich Village series rolls on and an

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Speaker 1: episode coming out later this week is focused on this

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Speaker 1: amazing place called the Music In on West Fourth Street

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Speaker 1: and Greenwich Village, and my guest for it is the

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Speaker 1: proprietor of the Music In, Jeff Slatink. Jeff, it's so

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Speaker 1: nice to meet you. Nice to meet you actually physically.

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Speaker 1: And whoever is out there in the future who might

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Speaker 1: hear this. I'll never see you, but I might dream

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Speaker 1: you in my thoughts. So let's see what happens. So

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Speaker 1: we're going to take a walk through the Music In

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Speaker 1: and tell the audience a little bit about the music In.

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Speaker 1: For those that maybe have never never run into it,

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Speaker 1: well they can't see nothing, but the Music In is

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Speaker 1: started in nineteen fifty eight by a gi who came

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Speaker 1: back from the Korean War and his wife had a

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Speaker 1: little bit of money and they started a record store

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Speaker 1: and right away they started selling instruments like guitars and

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Speaker 1: then banjo's and mandolin's American folk instruments. The fifties was

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Speaker 1: you know, really hot in the village for American folk music.

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Speaker 1: We have shows here at the store. We clean out

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Speaker 1: the drums in this room and we turn out the

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Speaker 1: lights and that's the stage, and we set up maybe

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Speaker 1: forty chairs, and we have open mics every Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: And that's the core of Greenwich Village forever. These great

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Speaker 1: places that, oh, you know, small venues. Yeah, I saw

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Speaker 1: Bob Dylan and an open mic in the Cafe WA

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Speaker 1: years ago when he had an open mic. Yeah, did

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Speaker 1: you think he was any good? Actually? No, I'm taking

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Speaker 1: a walk with Buss night s