Recordings
May, 1975
Bob Dylan was a kind of oracle for the Sixties. He seemed to be singing about us. Those flashing chains of surrealistic images were all about our lives, our own confusions and our own muddled notions, exploding at us with clarity and poetic force. He gave us the images with which we perceived ourselves. In the beginning, he was a folk singer, and his fans were the sincere, often politically committed--or at least concerned--folkies of the Kennedy years. The first time he sang backed by a band pl...
