Excerpt from my book ‘Seek the Risk’:

After finishing film school, my father, a beatnik folk singer, came back to NYC in the early ’60s to try to make it as a musician….

I went to see the new Bob Dylan movie last night, ‘A Complete Unknown’ and I thought it was fantastic. This was due in part to the movie having special meaning for me because my dad was an integral part of the early 1960’s folk music scene in Greenwich Village NYC.

My dad arrived in the city in early 1961, rented...