His songs have been recorded by, among others, The Limeliters, Peter, Paul and Mary, Simon & Garfunkel ('You Can Tell The World'), The Seekers, The Byrds, The Smothers Brothers, Phil Ochs, The Kingston Trio and Bob Dylan.

Back in New York City in the late 1940s, Gibson took a job at a firm that taught speed reading, where he was responsible for sales and public relations.

In 1952, he met and married his wife Rose, who quickly bore three daughters – Barbara (who changed her name to Meridian Green), Pati, and Susan.

So impressed was Gibson with Seeger and his music that he "took the money I had set aside for rent" (to Rose's chagrin) and bought a banjo.

At the age of 22 he began performing at schools, ladies' social clubs, lounges, and cabarets in New York, Miami, Cleveland, and aboard cruise ships traveling to various Caribbean islands.

Grossman booked numerous talented performers into Gate of Horn, including Josh White, Glenn Yarborough, Odetta, Hamilton Camp, Judy Collins, and Joan Baez.

[4] Art D'Lugoff opened the iconic Village Gate in New York City in 1958, and Gibson and Camp became regular performers there.

Their last joint project in Nashville in 1993 was the album Makin' A Mess, produced by Silverstein and Kyle Lehning and released on Asylum Records.

Gibson was in and out of jails in Canada, (which led to his Christmas carol "Box of Candy and a Piece of Fruit")[citation needed] Chicago, and Cleveland, for various drug-related charges.

While he had been a popular and high-profile performer in the 1960s—as well as an important influence on other musicians—by 1978, interest in his purely acoustic folk-styled music had waned significantly.

Although many remembered Gibson and he recorded several albums of new music over the next several years, he was never again to capture the mass public appeal of his early 1960s period.

Gibson moved from "my favorite place to live (Mendocino, California)" to Portland, Oregon where PSP was being studied.