Questions about Carlebach

[Jewish Music Distribution <jmduk...>]

Dear List
A customer asked me the following questions which I feel the list will be able 
to answer much better than me, can I please email it here for the list:

This is what he wrote me:

I am trying to find out the answers, as mentioned, to the following
questions on Shlomo Carlebach:

1.  How did he come to record for Vanguard, a blues/folk lable whose roster
includes people like Odetta James, Joan Baez, Skp James?

2.  How did he come to record at the Village Gate at a time when it was a
focal point in NY for the folk and jazz scene?

3.  Did Carlebach attract at that point a wider audience outside Jewish
circles given his "hippie Rabbi" orientation?

4.  What are Carlebach's best recordings?

5.  Has anybody written a book on him ?

If you could please send all replies to my home e-mail address which is
ben (at) apfels(dot)com(dot)

Thanks - Noa
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Noa Lachman
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