Some Dylan songs that I think are incredibly overrated and/or don’t really need to hear again:.He was the original Dylan freak in our household, and I first grew to love Bob’s songs not as much through the original records, but rather through Joe’s interpretation of songs like “I Don’t Believe You” and “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train to Cry.” He would often sit in his room and play them on an acoustic guitar, and I would wander in and bang out primitive percussion on the back of a broken old acoustic. My brother Joseph turned me on to Bob Dylan.I often wondered how those boots ended up in the Library and, just now, I did an online search of the Henry Madden Library to see if it’s still there. In any event, I recorded it to cassette a couple of times, and spent the next few years trying to figure out how to, uh, liberate it from its involuntary servitude. I do know that there were a couple of other boots there, including The Rolling Stones Live’R Than You’ll Ever Be. At some point in the mid-1980s, I discovered that the Henry Madden Library at Fresno State had a vinyl copy of infamous “Royal Albert Hall” bootleg.has intersected with my life for the past 30 or so years.
So rather than some kind of overview of details that you’ve heard a zillion times before and/or don’t really care about, here are are some snippets of how my ongoing love of Bob’s music, etc.
By which I mean, once you’ve fallen in love with Bob’s music, your relationship to it is different than anybody else’s. It’s my thought that, after 45 years, everybody who loves Bob Dylan has their own Bob Dylan.
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