ABSTRACT
The story is well documented, almost mythic, like all good folk songs: a cherubfaced Minnesota kid by the name of Robert Zimmerman becomes entranced with the music and autobiography of Woody Guthrie and hitches his way east to find his ailing musical hero at Greystone Park State Hospital. From then on the kid, who had changed his name to Bob Dylan, would forever be known as one of Guthrie’s greatest disciples, and perhaps by his own formidable reputation, even contribute to the strengthening of his mentor’s prominence.
