'The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ was the first one of his I’d heard –- the one with ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ on it. That really turned my head, and it made me aware of something I had not been aware of previously – that one guy with a guitar can frame together music and poetry and present art that amounts to that.
From Art Tatum to Marty Robbins, created in the Americana cracks between the Coltrane Quartet, Bob Dylan and Bill Monroe, rising from the counterculture only to take a place among all the other wild Apple Pie slices, reincarnated every 5,000 years in a great cosmic event beyond any individual culture-- what an impossibility of causes and conditions coming together, with an astonishing array of roots and branches: "The Grateful Dead are as American as lynch mobs. America is a complex place."
Monday, February 14, 2011
Bob Dylan
According to an interview with Reverb Music, Bobby first heard Bob Dylan at age 21:
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