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Artist
Robert Bobby
12+ albums
about
A boy was born in Philadelphia, PA and his name was Joe Milsom. His folks moved to the suburbs when he was four years old. He attended Marple-Newtown High School and was president of his Junior & Senior Class. His brother Bob turned him on to Bob Dylan via The Freewheelin Bob Dylan album in the early 60's & he was never right after that. He frequented the Main Point as often as he could while in high school. The first show he saw was The Mitchell Trio. Chad Mitchell's wife was having a baby so he was not there. That left the other 2 members to play & one of them was John Denver. Believe it or not, John Denver was very good. After that, Joe saw people like Dave Van Ronk & Chris Smither every time they came thru town. Other memorable shows were Steve Goodman, Tom Rush, Arlo Guthrie at 18 years old, Muddy Waters, Tim Buckley, Commander Cody, Jackson Brown opening up for Chris Smither, Jerry Jeff Walker & David Bromberg opening for Jake Holmes, & on & on. In February of 1966 our young hero attended his first Bob Dylan concert at the Academy of Music in Philly. He was in the next to last row. Tickets were like $3.50 maybe. During the first half of the show when Dylan played solo, you could have heard a pin drop. The 2nd half he rocked out in his stove pipe pants suit - bouncing back on one foot-Rock history in the making. Our hero attended Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA where there was quite a substantial blues scene. Occasionally, Duke Robillard would come
