The ghost of 1960s Bob Dylan haunts NYC. The young man from Minnesota came to town 1961, hit the downtown music scene, and revolutionized music in an astonishingly short period of time. The musical culture of NYC and America has never been the same since.
Dylan shot to stardom with his 1965/1966 albums Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde, recorded in NYC within an eighteen-month span -- and they produced classic songs like "Just Like a Woman", "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", "Like a Rolling Stone", "Mr Tambourine Man", "Blowin' in the Wind", "Maggie's Farm" and "Subterrean Homesick Blues." During this time a photographer named Jerry Schatzberg took numerous pictures of the brilliant singer/songwriter, including the famous cover picutre for Blonde and Blonde.
Bob Dylan and this period of American and musical history are now the stuff of legend. Fortunately, Jerry Schatzberg not only took all these amazing pictures of Dylan during this time but he's still alive to talk about it! Over 90, Schatzberg just gave an amazing interview about his career, what it was like to know Dylan during that time, and how both the artist and the man should be best remembered. Read it -- it'll fascinate you.
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