ISRAEL G. YOUNG- MAN ABOUT NEW YORK TOWN

Izzy Young will one day make it big in this town. In fact, tomorrow is that day. Grab hold of your socks and britches for they may be blown away by the performance he'll give tomorrow at the benefit for the Museum of the City of New York. It's a lame museum. Most lame. Air, itself, has never been so still. But they have struck a vein of gold by tapping into the fertile soil of the living, breathing Folk Music scene that is still thriving. Kudos!

And they had enough sense to title their exhibit FOLK CITY which is cool with me. They can "be" Folk City all they want. Everyone knows better. They know what Folk City is and was. They don't know PORCO. The museum is fanning the flames for what's to come in 2014, which, as I said, is good for me.

But it's not about what's good for 'me.' What this exhibit will do is good for the City and good for the Folk Music world in general. The exhibit is next year, but the benefit is tomorrow.

Now I'm not supposed to say what's about to take place with Izzy's 4 minutes of fame...so all I'll say is Izzy is ALWAYS IN BACK OR IN THE CENTER.

~Porco

On Irving Place

The reason he's here

Off to Christies 20 Rock

IZZY YOUNG TERRORIZES NEW YORK...AGAIN

 Thanks to the fancy legwork of our friend David Peller, The Wizard of Iz landed safely on a couch somewhere in SOHO. An elevator detour found 4 of us standing in a car made for 3 with Ratso Sloman. Izzy makes a good house guest, I have discovered. Give him cheesecake for breakfast and chocolate for lunch. Truly, he's been eating well and reporting back to his adoring daughter.

He's here for the BIG exhibit fundraiser going on in a couple of days at the Museum of the City of New York. More on that absolutely, sure fire, can't miss happenin' good frolic later...

I'm honored to be his first host on this trip. He's here for 6 more days! What kind of trouble can we get ourselves mixed up into, I wonder....? Well, given our esteemed position (Dave and I), we've helped Izzy to be more at ease with his 4 minutes of FAME that he's been flown here to deliver. Nudge nudge here. Copy and paste there. Izzy had the right idea, large print makes it better.

Izzy will likely help close the show with his poignant prose and witty delivery. If you can get tickets to go, you should. And that's all I'm saying.

To answer your question, 'yes' those cookies are laced with hashish

A.L. should drop dead

Wrinkles are so 'now'

You left your whitefish in the ice box!

MORE F*CKING COOL PICTURES FROM IZZY YOUNG'S TRIP TO NYC

IZZY YOUNG recently came to NYC to do interviews for my documentary on Mike Porco and Gerde's. Folk City began as an idea in the minds of a stranger named Tom Prendergast and Israel Young. It was called "The Fifth Peg" for the first 5 months of 1960. Izzy is the only man on earth that could tell me the story. And in the end, he taught me a ton more about bricklaying.

I knew he was no schmuck right away, partly cuz he said so
(photo Dave Peller)

A lovely walk with my friends Terri Thal and Izzy. Beautiful people

Laughing one's ass off

Izzy smells a fucking rat

self portrait

Tracey Grisman sketch at brunch

stills from the formal interview

Dave Grisman and Izzy at the Folklore Center's last location on 6th

Izzy not letting Happy go 

Getting the scoop at the scene of the crime, 4th and Mercer

Talking man-to-man
(photo Jack Hirschorn)

Interview with Journalist Frank Beacham
(photo Jack Hirschorn)

Still on 4th and Mercer

(photo Jack Hirschorn)

A still from the video footage
Jane, Happy and the Wizard of Iz

"The Pink Penguin?! What the fuck?"