The singer Bob Dylan said was better than any other

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BY ROGER WATSONI came to Bob Dylan relatively late. It wasn’t until university that a girlfriend introduced me to Nashville Skyline (1969)—his most country-influenced album, and my belated introduction to Johnny Cash, who duets with Dylan on Girl from the North Country. I wasn’t exactly hooked, but I liked a few songs.Everything changed the following year when I moved in with my cousin, ten years my senior, for the final year of my studies. That…

The singer Bob Dylan said was better than any other

Bob Dylan was never the kind blessed with diva-like pipes, but he knew that there were some that could leave people transfixed when they sang.

Bob Dylan’s entire career is full of detours and turns to the left. He got his first, and possibly the biggest, on March 8, 1965, when he released the single “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” And a clip shot exactly two months later, on May 8, 1965. And it wasn’t at all Dylan’s initial raid on rock n’ roll. At the end of 1962, he recorded “Mixed-Up Confusion” as his first single for Columbia. However, it was a commercial failure and his subsequent …