About that photograph - Yes, you are correct, that is [little] Jesse and it was at the Mariposa Festival in 1972. Several weeks ago, I was speaking to Art Usherson, the photographer who took the picture. He told me it was a fluke that he ran into Dylan and wife Sara and caught them in a camera friendly mood. The result was a series of shots widely distributed at the time.
The Lightfoot/Dylan picture came about the same way and since Usherson was a backstage photographer at many Lightfoot concerts at the time, Lightfoot easily obliged him with the pose.
Just after it was taken, this shot appeared as a two page spread in a Rolling Stone photo edition.
[Which I still own]
If you look at the full frame version of the photograph, on the far left is David Bromberg and on the far right there is a hand raised, holding a joint.
Since This was the same photograph Lightfoot signed for me, after the Town Hall concert last month, I thought you might like some background.
Now you know more then I'm sure you ever wanted to, concerning this picture.
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