The little town of Woodstock, NY, and what happened there between 1963 and 1986

Barney has been writing about popular music for over 40 years and has many definitive biographies of groups and artists on both sides of the Atlantic to his credit, including one on the ‘Power & Excess’ of Led Zeppelin.

Small Town Talk, published in 2016, is about the music scene centred around the tiny Catskills town that punched way above its weight