From its early years as a home for Van Morrison, Neil Young, Miles Davis and the fledgling Bruce Springsteen to its heyday as a pillar of the NYC singer-songwriter community, Allan Pepper and Stanley Shadowsky's Greenwich Village nightclub, the Bottom Line, represented a triumph of musical integrity over commercial sway. Tonight, the club that has yet to say die (see
bottomlinecabaret.com for proof) is saluted by some of its mainstays, including Loudon Wainwright III, Rosanne Cash, Marshall Crenshaw, Garland Jeffreys and radio personality Vin Scelsa.