Highway 81 Revisited: Lenny Kaye & Idgy Dean

For more than half a century, Lenny Kaye has remained defiantly uncategorizable and "kaleidoscopic in his creative output” (Aquarium Drunkard). The longest-serving member of the Patti Smith Group, he has also curated the seminal garage rock anthology Nuggets – “one of the most influential compilations ever” (The Guardian) – co-wrote Waylon Jennings’ autobiography, penned music to Allen Ginsberg’s poetry alongside Paul McCartney and Philip Glass - and produced projects for Suzanne Vega, Soul Asylum, Jessi Colter and more. Lenny recently released his debut solo album Goin’ Local and appeared on CBS Saturday Morning’s Saturday Sessions and NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Idgy Dean (aka Lindsay Sanwald) is a musical artist, creative producer, and spiritual teacher based in Brooklyn. She has devoted her life to writing, recording, and touring her mystical/queer/feminist one-woman psychedelic rock shows across the USA and abroad. She is presently developing new material while teaching meditation and comparative theology to private students and groups. Highway 81 Revisited is an independent music blog based in New York City founded by journalist Michael Lello in 2011. H81R covers virtually all genres of popular music, as exemplified by interviews with Billy Strings, Mike Watt, Judas Priest, Peter Hook, Robert Hunter and members of Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Yes, among many others.