• TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • BOB DYLAN LINKS

  • SONY/Columbia's
    Official Bob Dylan Site

  • Links to other Dylan pages
    (Bill Pagel's "Boblinks")

  • Jim Roemer's "Book of Bob"
    (a basically complete collection of Dylan's lyrics)

  • Seth Kulick's 'Roots' site
    (roots of Bob's own compositions)

  • MY OTHER SITES:

  • WWW.FOLKARCHIVE.DE
    UNDER CONSTRUCTION

  • HISTORY IN SONG
  • WOODY GUTHRIE
  • DOC WATSON
  • JANIS JOPLIN

  • EMAIL

    BOB DYLAN,
    "BLOWIN' IN THE WIND",
    "Hootenanny" magazine,
    Dec 1963:

    "An Doc Watson's walkin
    Ray Charles's shoutin an speakin
    Bertrand Russell's yellin from across the ocean
    an Julian Beck's tellin the same on this side a the sea --
    Jim Foreman is livin an Ross Barnett's losin --
    Harry Jackson's paintin --
    Maybelle Carter's really standin an really strummin
    an Mike Seeger's really real
    An Pete Seeger's really
    Pete Seeger --
    An Joan Baez is still unshattered
    An Marlon Brando's on the good side --
    An the time's a rollin down every single street --
    There's a girl waitin on every single corner --
    An men're still breathin
    An it's all music..."

    BOB DYLAN
    & COUNTRY MUSIC
    a musical collage by Manfred Helfert, featuring country songs covered (or written) by Dylan throughout his career...
    based on "Songs from the Heartland" on the "Highway 61 Interactive" CD ROM.

    (RealAudio, 41 minutes -- 10MB)

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    Welcome to the

    Bob Dylan Musical Roots
    and Influences Pages

    (previous incarnations were
    "Roots, Routes and Ramblings"
    and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man")
    of Manfred Helfert, Mainz, Germany.

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    PATTI SMITH's new album "Twelve" contains cover of Dylan's "Changing Of The Guard"

    "Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew."
    WOODY GUTHRIE, 3/29/46 NYC

    LAST UPDATE(S): Apr 22, 2007

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    Bob Dylan, 1962
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    		 There he stands, and who can believe him? Black corduroy cap, green corduroy shirt, blue corduroy pants. Hard-lick guitar, whooping harmonica, skinny little voice. Beardless chin, shaggy sideburns, porcelain pussy-cat eyes. At 22, he looks 14, and his accent belongs to a jive Nebraskan, or maybe a Brooklyn hillbilly.

    He is a dime-store philosopher, a drugstore cowboy, a men's room conversationalist. And when he describes his young life, he declares himself dumbfounded at the spectacle. "With my thumb out, my eyes asleep, my hat turned up an' my head turned on," says Bob Dylan, "I'm driftin' and learnin' new lessons."

    Sometimes he lapses into a scrawny Presleyan growl, and sometimes his voice simply sinks into silence beneath the pile-drive chords he plays on his guitar. But he has something unique to say, and he says it in songs of his own invention that are the best songs of their style since Woody Guthrie's.

    TIME, May 31, 1963.

    "Anything called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz, and all over the U.S. there is a great reverberate twang. Guitars and banjos akimbo, folk singers inhabit smoky metropolitan crawl space; they sprawl on the floors of college rooms; near the foot of ski trails, they keep time to the wheeze and sputter of burning logs; they sing homely lyrics to the combers of the Pacific.
    They are everybody and anybody. A civil engineer performs in his off-hours in the folk bins of the Midwest. So do debutantes, university students, even a refugee from an Eastern girl's-school choir. Everywhere, there are bearded fop singers and clean-cut dilettantes. There are gifted amateurs and serious musicians. New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver and San Francisco all have shoals of tiny coffee shops, all loud with basic folk sound--a pinched and studied wail that is intended to suggest flinty hills or clumpy prairies."

    "JOAN BAEZ -- Folk Singing: Sybil with guitar,"
    TIME, Nov 23, 1962.

    Bob Dylan on performing in Greenwich Village coffehouses...

    Bert Kleinman Interview, 1984
    (RealAudio, 924 KB)

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