the room was large , but it seemed small at first , because it was painted a dark salmon and precisely stuffed with books and cds and a triumphantly kitschy half canoe that had been stood upright and turned into a case to hold knickknacks and paperbacks with weathered spines and a row of actual 33 1/3 rpm albums , mostly from the sixties-dylan and joan baez sharing space with donovan and the byrds ; peter , paul and mary ; and blind faith .