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Popdose is pleased to present the first video from Richard Barone’s newly released collection of folk songs born in Greenwich Village, Sorrows & Promises.  The track is his rendition of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bleecker Street” (from their debut album, Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.) and features Pete and Maura Kennedy on the album performance.

If you’ve never walked these streets, you’ll feel like you’re there as you can feel the emotion of the song and the delivery from Mr. Barone.  The images, captured at night, indeed, catch the essence of not only Bleecker Street, but of the neighborhood – and Mr. Barone has delivered masterfully.

So here now is Paul Simon’s elegiac ode to this Greenwich Village flashpoint as re-invigorated by Richard Barone, “Bleecker Street”.

Sorrows & Promises:  Greenwich Village In The 1960’s is available now

http://radi.al/RBaroneSorrowsPromises

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Rob Ross

Rob Ross has been, for good, bad or indifferent, involved in the music industry for over 30 years - first as guitarist/singer/songwriter with The Punch Line, then as freelance journalist, producer and manager to working for independent and major record labels. He resides in Staten Island, New York with his wife and cats; he works out a lot, reads voraciously, loves Big Star and his orange Gretsch. Doesn't that make him neat?

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