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Over the years I’d read about Kenny’s Castaways on Bleecker Street and how Patti Smith and other music luminaries played there. I didn’t realize, until recently, that I’d been there. I’d seen Big Joe Williams, the blues great, play there in 1982. This was when I was working as a building super at 258 Broadway. It was a live-in job, and [...]