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by Richard F. Thomas


  Don’t Look Back (film), 72, 148

  “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” (song), 67, 140–41, 146, 277, 278, 281

  Douglas, Kirk, 54

  “Drunken Boat, The” (Rimbaud), 153–54

  Duluth National Guard Armory, 120, 231

  “Duquesne Whistle” (song), 190, 279, 306

  “Dusty Sweatbox Blues” (original title of “Tangled Up in Blue”), 218–19

  Dylan, Bob

  acoustic-to-electric transition, 9, 21–22, 38–39, 167, 216, 290

  acting by, 42, 55, 89, 108, 228

  the art of the song and, 25

  birth of, 42

  childhood home of, 46–47

  Christian phase, 39, 70–71, 81, 84, 88–89, 97, 120, 128, 161–62, 285–86

  continuing evolution of music, 31–32, 37–40

  creative methodology of, 211–16

  fans and, 284–90

  Greek influences (see Greece (ancient))

  high school of (see Hibbing High)

  historical and contemporary elements in music of, 121–22, 126

  home town of (see Hibbing, MN)

  honorary degree from Princeton, 24

  intergenerational appeal of, 8, 10–11

  intertextuality in works (see Intertextuality)

  interviews and press conferences of, 119–27

  metal sculpture of, 108, 228

  Nobel Prize awarded to (see Nobel Prize in Literature)

  in performance, 267–90

  public reactions to new music of, 23–24, 38–39

  real name of, 42, 70

  Roman influences (see Rome)

  setlists, 28, 92–94, 165–66, 278–79

  tags created by, 208

  teaching as an ambition of, 52, 129

  touring discontinued by, 24

  transfiguration and (see Transfiguration)

  works

  “Absolutely Sweet Marie,” 163

  “Ain’t Talkin’”, 56–57, 93, 233, 240, 243, 244

  “All Along the Watchtower,” 8, 279

  Another Side of Bob Dylan, 155, 213

  “Ballad of a Thin Man,” 282–83

  “The Ballad of Hollis Brown,” 303

  The Basement Tapes, 31

  “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”, 241, 278

  “Beyond the Horizon,” 233

  Biograph, 50, 218

  “Blind Willie McTell,” 303

  Blonde on Blonde, 1, 22–23, 30, 31, 146, 166, 227

  Blood on the Tracks (see Blood on the Tracks)

  “Blowin’ in the Wind” (see “Blowin’ in the Wind”)

  Bob Dylan: Lyrics: 1961–2001, 83

  Bob Dylan: The Lyrics: 1961–2012, 83, 143, 183, 195, 209, 255–56

  “Bob Dylan’s Dream,” 79, 141–43

  The Bootleg Series (see Bootleg Series works)

  “Boots of Spanish Leather,” 67–68, 93, 94, 248–49

  Bringing It All Back Home, 23, 290

  “Bye and Bye,” 187, 202, 237

  “California Brown-Eyed Baby,” 138–40

  “Changing of the Guards,” 38, 80–84, 98

  “Chimes of Freedom,” 155–60, 214–15

  Christmas in the Heart, 161–62

  Chronicles: Volume One (see Chronicles: Volume One)

  “Cold Irons Bound,” 251

  Desire, 37, 184, 218, 227, 228

  “Desolation Row,” 15–16, 100, 185, 215–16, 277, 279, 305

  “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” 67, 140–41, 146, 277, 278, 281

  “Duquesne Whistle,” 190, 279, 306

  “Early Roman Kings,” 14, 89–91, 204, 257, 273, 277, 303

  The Essential Bob Dylan, 278

  “Every Grain of Sand,” 93

  Fallen Angels, 273, 278, 279

  “Floater (Too Much To Ask),” 43, 48, 196

  “Forgetful Heart,” 119, 252

  “Fourth Time Around,” 146–47, 148

  The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 19, 23, 66–67, 278, 296

  “Girl of the North Country,” 67, 94, 250

  “Goin’ Back to Rome,” 41, 54, 68–70, 72, 78, 125

  Good As I Been To You, 162, 232

  “Handy, Dandy,” 286

  “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” 149, 155, 174, 296–301, 303

  “Highlands,” 176–87, 238, 286, 323

  “High Water Rising,” 174, 277, 279, 289

  Highway 61 Revisited, 23, 278, 279

  “Highway 61 Revisited,” 9, 277, 278

  “Honest with Me,” 93, 202

  “Hurricane,” 303

  “Idiot Wind,” 5–6, 34, 72, 73–74, 218, 222–24, 250

  “I Don’t Believe You,” 93

  “If You See Her, Say Hello,” 34, 35–37, 60, 252

  “I’ll Remember You,” 151

  Infidels, 286

  “Isis,” 250–51

  “Is Your Love in Vain,” 38

  “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” 22, 93, 281

  “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” 148

  “It’s Alright, Ma,” 163

  “I Want You,” 59

  “Joey,” 303

  John Wesley Harding, 31, 161, 227

  “Kingsport Town,” 143–46

  “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat,” 93

  “Like a Rolling Stone,” 93, 272

  Live at the Gaslight 1962, 86

  “Lonesome Day Blues,” 7, 77–78, 194–202, 238, 273

  “Long Ago, Far Away,” 70–72

  “Long and Wasted Years,” 278, 279

  “Love and Theft” (see “Love and Theft”)

  “Love Sick,” 64, 168, 188, 279

  “Maggie’s Farm,” 290

  “Make You Feel My Love,” 189, 206–7

  “Man in the Long Black Coat,” 93

  “Man of Constant Sorrow,” 70

  “Masters of War,” 23, 28–29, 133–35, 319

  “Meet Me in the Morning,” 35, 224–25

  “Million Miles,” 188

  “Mississippi,” 225, 262, 284, 309

  Modern Times (see Modern Times)

  “Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine),” 93

  “Most of the Time,” 251

  “Mr. Tambourine Man,” 22, 153–54, 155

  “My Wife’s Home Town,” 251

  “Narrow Way,” 259

  Nashville Skyline, 31, 32, 285

  “Nettie Moore,” 232–33, 248

  New Morning, 32

  “North Country Blues,” 47–49

  “Not Dark Yet,” 44, 187–88, 230

  “Obviously Five Believers,” 163

  “One Too Many Mornings,” 67

  “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” 21

  “Pay in Blood,” 254, 259, 264–65, 277, 278, 303

  “Po’ Boy,” 268

  “Positively 4th Street,” 93, 163

  “Queen Jane Approximately,” 93, 163

  “Red River Shore,” 252

  “Rollin’ and Tumblin’,” 93, 227, 242

  “Roll on, John,” 164

  “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” 30, 185

  “Sara,” 73, 218, 220, 252

  “Scarlet Town,” 86–89

  Self Portrait, 31–32

  “Señor,” 38

  Shadows in the Night, 58, 241, 270, 271, 273, 278, 279, 283

  “Shelter from the Storm,” 55–56

  “Shooting Star,” 252

  Shot of Love, 285–86

  “Simple Twist of Fate,” 33, 34, 35, 231, 277, 279, 281

  Slow Train Coming, 84

  “Soon After Midnight,” 85, 243, 278, 279

  “Standing in the Doorway,” 188

  Street Legal, 37–38, 80

  “Sugar Baby,” 267

  “Tangled Up in Blue” (see “Tangled Up in Blue”)

  Tempest (see Tempest)

  “Tempest,” 85–86, 116–17, 185

  “Things Have Changed,” 278, 281–83

  “Thunder on the Mountain,” 238–39


  “‘Til I Fell in Love with You,” 64, 189, 251

  Time Out of Mind (see Time Out of Mind)

  The Times They Are A-Changin’, 21, 47, 283

  “Tin Angel,” 85, 258, 259, 314

  Together Through Life, 93, 164, 241, 252, 278, 306

  “Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” 67

  “To Ramona,” 281

  Triplicate, 127, 260, 270, 272, 273, 275–76, 279

  “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven,” 168–75, 199, 251, 319

  Under the Red Sky, 6, 227, 286

  “Under the Red Sky,” 93, 286

  “Up to Me,” 218

  “Visions of Johanna,” 30, 33

  “When He Returns,” 286

  “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” 72–74, 75, 77–80, 88, 93

  “When the Deal Goes Down,” 93, 229–31, 234–35

  “When the Ship Comes In,” 21

  “Wiggle Wiggle,” 286

  “Workingman’s Blues #2,” 222, 229, 239, 240, 244, 246–48, 251, 255–56, 260

  World Gone Wrong, 162

  “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go,” 30, 151

  Dylan, Sara (wife of Dylan), 24, 32, 59, 72–74, 78, 97

  “Sara,” Dylan’s song about, 73, 218, 220, 252

  marital problems and divorce, 30, 35, 37, 60, 74, 151

  as a Playboy Bunny, 110, 184, 220

  “Early Roman Kings” (song), 14, 89–91, 204, 257, 273, 277, 303

  Early Years, The (Guthrie album), 137

  Eclogues (Virgil), 13, 83–84, 191, 206

  Eisenhower, Dwight, 318

  Eliot, T. S., 9, 118, 153, 208, 211

  on borrowing and stealing by poets, 193, 204, 235, 243–44

  The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 16, 305–6

  Nobel Prize awarded to, 14–16, 209

  “Philip Massinger,” 193

  The Waste Land, 15

  “What Is a Classic?”, 14–16, 209–10

  Engdahl, Horace, 291, 294–96

  Essential Bob Dylan, The (album), 278

  Essential Interviews, The (Cott), 27

  Euripides, 288

  “Everybody Loves Somebody Some Time” (song), 269

  “Every Grain of Sand” (song), 93

  Exile poetry of Ovid, 238–48, 253

  Expectingrain.com, 196, 287

  Fagles, Robert, 14, 132, 256

  Fairport Convention, 134

  Fallen Angels (album), 273, 278, 279

  Fans, 284–90

  Fear of Flying (Jong), 185

  Fell, Cliff, 239–41

  Ferry, David, 237

  Firefly Music Festival, 280

  Fitzpatrick, M. J., 156, 276

  Flanagan, Bill, 127, 260, 321–22

  “Floater (Too Much to Ask)” (song), 43, 48, 196

  Folk music, 38, 57, 134, 136, 162, 248

  Folk-rock music, 23, 31

  Folkstudio (Rome club), 66–67, 70

  “Forgetful Heart” (song), 119, 252

  Foster, Jodie, 108

  “Fourth Time Around” (song), 146–47, 148

  “Frankie and Albert” (song), 232, 314

  Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The (album), 19, 23, 66–67, 278, 296. See also individual songs

  Freewheelin’ Time, A (Rotolo), 108–9, 149

  Fricke, David, 270

  “Full Moon and Empty Arms” (song), 277, 278

  Gainsbourg, Charlotte, 59

  Garcia, Jerry, 306

  Gaslight Cafe, 86, 177

  Gaucho (album), 163

  “Genius and Modern Times of Bob Dylan, The” (Lethem), 123

  “Gentle Nettie Moore” (song), 232

  George Kaiser Family Foundation, 216

  Georgics (Virgil), 189–90, 211

  Gerde’s Folk City, 21, 23, 69

  Gilmore, Michael J., 162

  Gilmore, Mikal, 86, 121–22, 124–27, 164–67, 178, 201–2, 204, 242–43

  Ginsberg, Allen, 152, 153, 292–93

  “Girl of the North Country” (song), 67, 94, 250

  Gitlin, Todd, 23

  Glover, Tony, 70

  “Goin’ Back to Rome” (song), 41, 54, 68–70, 72, 78, 125

  “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad” (song), 172

  “Golden Chain” (song), 170

  Gooch, Ray, 101–10, 114–15, 116, 118–19, 124, 127, 129, 244

  Good As I Been To You (album), 162, 232

  Grateful Dead, 306

  Graves, Robert, 114

  Gray, Michael, 41, 319–20

  Great American Songbook, 58, 92, 190, 241, 252, 268–74, 278, 283, 322. See also “Covering” of songs

  Greece (ancient), 1, 2, 5, 17, 58, 84, 112–15, 125, 127–28, 144, 288, 308. See also individual poets

  Green, Peter, 239, 244, 246, 252

  Greene, Andy, 98–99

  Greenwich Village, 49, 50, 54, 57, 86

  Grossman, Albert, 213

  Guardian, 291

  Gunderson, Edna, 302–3

  Guthrie, Woody, 50, 167, 295

  Bound for Glory (book), 136, 231

  “Bound for Glory,” 173

  The Early Years, 137

  “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad,” 172

  “Gypsy Davy,” 85

  “Hard Travelling,” 170

  “Jesus Christ,” 71

  “Pastures of Plenty,” 136

  “Poor Boy,” 171

  “This Land Is Your Land,” 136

  “Who’s Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet,” 143–45

  “Gypsy Davy” (song), 85

  Hadrian’s Wall, 208

  Halcyon Gallery, 108

  Haldeman, H. R., 62

  Hamlet (Shakespeare), 56

  Hammond, John, 96, 118, 131

  “Handy, Dandy” (song), 286

  Hanson, Curtis, 282

  Hansson, Thors Hans, 298–99

  Hard Rain (TV movie), 40

  “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, A” (song), 149, 155, 174, 296–301, 303

  “Hard Travelling” (song), 170

  Hardy, Thomas, 44

  Harrison, Rex, 61

  HART (Halt All Racist Tours), 20

  Harvard University, 8–11, 37, 217

  Hawks, 290

  Haynes, Todd, 59

  Heaney, Seamus, 205

  Helen of Troy (film), 53

  “Hellhound on My Trail” (song), 232

  Hell’s Angel (Barger, Zimmerman and Zimmerman), 124–25

  Helmerich Center for American Research (University of Tulsa), 216

  Helstrom, Echo Star, 231

  Hematite (Hibbing High yearbook), 49–50

  Hentoff, Nat, 213

  Herron, Donnie, 271–72, 273

  Hesiod, 116

  Heylin, Clinton, 79, 98–99, 180–81, 275, 319, 320

  Hibbing, MN, 42–49, 79–80

  Hibbing High, 44–46, 89, 109–10, 111. See also Latin Club (Hibbing High)

  Hibbing Hi Times, 51, 109

  “Highlands” (song), 176–87, 238, 286, 323

  “High Water Rising (For Charley Patton)” (song), 174, 277, 279, 289

  Highway 61 Revisited (album), 23, 278, 279. See also individual songs

  “Highway 61 Revisited” (song), 9, 277, 278

  Highway 61 Revisited: Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World (symposium), 41–42

  Hilburn, Robert, 161

  History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), 112–14

  Holly, Buddy, 120, 231, 312

  Homer, 2, 14, 91, 98, 116, 122, 124, 132–33, 164, 197, 203–4, 205, 242, 270, 273, 302–4, 311, 322. See also Odyssey

  “Honest with Me” (song), 93, 202

  Hootie & the Blowfish, 134

  Hopkins, Lightnin’, 29–30

  Hopper, Dennis, 108

  Horace, 2, 4, 21, 236–38

  House, Son, 29

  “House of the Rising Sun” (song), 175

  House Un-American Activities Committee, 53

  “How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky)?” (so
ng), 269

  Hunter, Robert, 190, 252, 306

  “Hurricane” (song), 303

  I, Claudius (Graves), 114

  “I Could Have Told You” (song), 278, 279

  Ides of March, 56, 61, 103

  “Idiot Wind” (song), 5–6, 34, 72, 73–74, 218, 222–24, 250

  “I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)” (song), 93

  “If I Lose, Let Me Lose” (song), 138

  “If You See Her, Say Hello” (song), 34, 35–37, 60, 252

  “I’ll Remember You” (song), 151

  I’m Not There (film), 59

  Indrebø, Reidar, 292

  Infidels (album), 286

  Intertextuality, 131–60, 161–63, 164, 176–79, 187, 193–204. See also Transfiguration; individual artists and works

  biblical, 161–62, 174–75, 244

  competitive, 146–48

  defined, 131

  Dylan’s explanation of, 166–67, 321–22

  Dylan’s legal dispute over, 135–36

  Eliot on, 193, 204, 235, 243–44

  plagiarism distinguished from, 131–32

  Iraq wars, 5, 29, 113–14, 289

  “Isis” (song), 250–51

  “Is Your Love in Vain” (song), 38

  “It Ain’t Me, Babe” (song), 22, 93, 281

  “Ithaca” (Cavafy), 263

  “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (song), 148

  “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” (song), 163

  “I Want You” (song), 59

  Japan, 198, 199, 202

  Jenkins, Larry, 217

  Jerry Garcia Band, 269

  Jesus Christ, 55, 56, 70–71, 89

  “Jesus Christ” (song), 71

  “Joey” (song), 303

  Johansson, Scarlett, 230–31

  John, Elton, 284

  Johnson, Chris, 196

  Johnson, Pete, 269

  Johnson, Robert, 232

  “John the Revelator” (song), 170

  John Wesley Harding (album), 31, 161, 227

  Jong, Erica, 185

  Julius Caesar (film), 53

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 254

  Jupiter’s Darling (film), 53

  Juvenal, 85–86, 91

  “Kaddish” (Ginsberg), 153

  Kaiser, George, 217

  Kemper, David, 269, 271

  Kiel, Chloe, 101–10, 118–19

  Kimball, Stu, 268

  King, B. B., 29

  King, Stephen, 293

  King of Kings (film), 54, 55, 127

  “Kingsport Town” (song), 143–46

  Kubrick, Stanley, 54

  “Lady Franklin’s Lament” (ballad), 142–43

  Lanois, Daniel, 168

  Last Days of Pompeii (film), 122

  Latin (language), 49, 62–63, 67, 122

  Latin Club (Hibbing High), 50–52, 55, 56, 57, 62, 67, 80, 122

  Leadbelly, 136, 312

  Ledger, Heath, 59

  Lee, C. P., 41

  Leeds Music Publishing, 96

  Leigh, Carolyn, 269

 

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