“Bob Dylan was said to have had a mind like a sponge in the late 1950s and early ’60s as he soaked up all he could from live gigs and borrowed records. All the while, a filing cabinet with his beloved folk forebears’ chord patterns and lyrics would begin to manifest itself in the hardwiring of his marvellous brain. Dylan’s particular interest in Woody Guthrie would draw him from Minneapolis to New York in the early 1960s. During his early months of couch surfing and gig wrangling, Dylan managed to meet and befriend his idol in the final years of his life. He would sit at Guthrie’s bedside, where he was tragically dying from Huntington’s disease, and play some of his songs to him. One of these was the touching tribute, ‘Song to Woody’, which based its core structure on Guthrie’s song, ‘1939 Massacre’. ...”
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