by Jeff Burger
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Jeff Burger edited Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon (2016), Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters (2014), and Springsteen on Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches, and Encounters (2013), all published in North America by Chicago Review Press. He has been a writer and editor for more than four decades and has covered popular music throughout his journalism career.
His reviews, essays, and reportage on that and many other subjects have appeared in more than seventy-five magazines, newspapers, and books, including All Music Guide, Barron’s, Circus, Creem, Family Circle, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, High Fidelity, the Los Angeles Times, Melody Maker, No Depression, and Reader’s Digest. He has published interviews with many leading musicians, including Tommy James, Billy Joel, Foreigner’s Mick Jones, Roger McGuinn, the Righteous Brothers, Bruce Springsteen, the members of Steely Dan, and Tom Waits; and with such public figures as F. Lee Bailey, Sir Richard Branson, James Carville, Daymond John, Suze Orman, Sydney Pollack, Cliff Robertson, Donald Trump, and Wolfman Jack.
Burger has been editor of several periodicals, including Phoenix magazine in Arizona, and he spent fourteen years in senior positions at Medical Economics, America’s leading business magazine for doctors. A former consulting editor at Time Inc., he currently serves as editor of Business Jet Traveler, which was named one of the country’s best business magazines in 2011, 2013, and 2016 in the American Society of Business Publication Editors’ Azbee Awards competition.
Burger—whose website, byjeffburger.com, collects more than forty years’ worth of his music reviews and commentary—lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His wife, Madeleine Beresford, is a preschool director and teacher, and a puppeteer. The couple have a son, Andre, and a daughter, Myriam.
CREDITS
I gratefully acknowledge the help of everyone who gave permission for material to appear in this book. I have made every reasonable effort to contact copyright holders. If an error or omission has been made, please bring it to the attention of the publisher.
Izzy Young’s Notebook, by Izzy Young. Copyright © 1961–1962 by Izzy Young. Reprinted by permission.
Interview with Cynthia Gooding. Broadcast March 1962, WBAI-FM. Copyright © 1962 by Pacifica Radio Archives. Printed by permission.
Conversation with Izzy Young, Pete Seeger, Sis Cunningham, and Gil Turner. Copyright © 1962 by Pacifica Radio Archives. Printed by permission.
“A Day with Bob Dylan,” by John Cocks. Published November 20, 1964 in the Kenyon Collegian. Copyright © 1964 by the Kenyon Collegian. Reprinted by permission.
“Bob Dylan as Bob Dylan,” by Paul Jay Robbins. Published September 10, 17, and 24, 1965 in the Los Angeles Free Press. Copyright © 1965 by the Los Angeles Free Press. Reprinted by permission.
Interview with Nora Ephron and Susan Edmiston. Copyright © 1965. Reprinted by permission of Susan Edmiston and ICM Partners.
“Playboy Interview: Bob Dylan,” by Nat Hentoff. Published March 1996 in Playboy. Copyright © 1966 by Nat Hentoff. Reprinted by permission of Margot Hentoff and Playboy.
Conversation with Bob Fass. Broadcast January 26, 1966 on WBAI-FM. Copyright © 1966 by Pacifica Radio Archives. Printed by permission.
Interview with Klas Burling. Broadcast April 28, 1966 on Swedish Radio Corporation’s Radio 3. Copyright © 1966 by Klas Burling. Printed by permission.
“Conversations with Bob Dylan,” by John Cohen and Happy Traum. Published October/November 1968 in Sing Out! Copyright © 1968 by Sing Out! Reprinted by permission.
Interview with Mary Travers. Broadcast April 20, 1975 on Mary Travers and Friend on KNX-FM (and syndicated). Copyright © 1975 by CBS Radio. Printed by permission.
“Bob Dylan: ‘. . . A Sailing Ship to the Moon’,” by Neil Hickey. Published March 4, 2015 in Adventures in the Scribblers Trade. Copyright © 2015 by Neil Hickey. Reprinted by permission.
“An Interview with Dylan,” by Randy Anderson. Published February 17, 1978 in Minnesota Daily. Copyright © 1978 by Minnesota Daily. Reprinted by permission.
Interview with Paul Vincent. Broadcast November 19, 1980 on KMEL-FM. Copyright © 1980. Printed by permission of iHeart Media.
Interview with Paul Gambaccini. Broadcast June 20, 1981 on BBC Radio 1. Copyright © 1981 by Paul Gambaccini. Printed by permission.
“Jesus, Who’s Got Time to Keep Up with the Times?,” by Mick Brown. Published July 1, 1984, the Sunday Times (UK). Copyright © 1984 by Mick Brown. Reprinted by permission.
Interview with Bert Kleinman and Artie Mogull. Broadcast November 13, 1984 on Westwood One radio network. Copyright © 1984 by Westwood One. Printed by permission.
Interview with Bob Coburn. Broadcast June 17, 1985 on Rockline. Copyright © 1985 by Rockline. Printed by permission.
“Bob Dylan—After All These Years in the Spotlight, the Elusive Star Is at the Crossroads Again,” by Mikal Gilmore. Published October 13, 1985 in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Copyright © 1985 by Mikal Gilmore. Reprinted by permission.
“Ask Him Something, and a Sincere Dylan Will Tell You the Truth,” by Don McLeese. Published January 26, 1986 in the Chicago Sun-Times. Copyright © 1986 by Don McLeese. Reprinted by permission.
“The Invisible Man,” by David Hepworth. Published October 1986 in Q magazine. Copyright © 1986 by David Hepworth. Reprinted by permission.
Interview with Elliot Mintz. Broadcast May 1991 on Westwood One radio network. Copyright © 1991 by Westwood One. Printed by permission.
Interview with Paul Zollo. Published November 1991 in SongTalk. Copyright © 1991 by Paul Zollo. Reprinted by permission.
“Dylan: Jokes, Laughter, and a Series of Dreams,” by Peter Wilmoth. Published April 3, 1992 in the Age. Copyright © 1992 by Peter Wilmoth. Reprinted by permission.
“A Midnight Chat with Dylan,” by John Dolen. Published September 28, 1995 in the SunSentinel. Copyright © 1995 by the SunSentinel. Reprinted by permission.
No Direction Home outtakes. Copyright © 2000 by Pacifica Radio Archives. Printed by permission.
Interview with Ed Bradley. Broadcast December 5, 2004 on 60 Minutes, CBS-TV. Copyright © 2004 by CBS News. Printed by permission.
“The Genius and Modern Times of Bob Dylan,” by Jonathan Lethem. Published September 7, 2006 in Rolling Stone. Copyright © 2006 by Jonathan Lethem. Reprinted by permission.
“Bob Dylan’s Late-Era, Old-Style American Individualism,” by Douglas Brinkley. Published May 14, 2009 in Rolling Stone. Copyright © 2009 by Douglas Brinkley. Reprinted by permission.
“Bob Dylan: The Uncut Interview,” by Robert Love. Published February/March 2015 in AARP The Magazine (portions of intro) and aarp.org. Copyright © 2015 by AARP. Reprinted by permission. Permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
Nobel Prize banquet speech, by Bob Dylan. Delivered December 10, 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden by Azita Raji. Copyright © 2016 by the Nobel Foundation. Printed by permission.
Press conferences are in the public domain.
INDEX
A&E, 240
ABC, 130, 158, 306
“Abraham, Martin, and John” (Dion Di Mucci), 255
“Absolutely Sweet Marie,” 355, 368
After School Session (Chuck Berry), 475
“Alabama Getaway” (the Grateful Dead), 474
Albert Bonniers, 513
Albright, Madeleine, 220, 485
Ali, Muhammad, 176
Alk, Jones, 157
“All Along the Watchtower,” 169, 202, 217, 256, 334, 383, 389
Jimi Hendrix version of, 290–291, 389–390
“All I Really Want to Do,” 37, 451
Allen, Lynne, 248
Allen, Woody, 206
Allman Brothers Band, the, 20, 240
Altamont Speedway Free Festival, 337
“Amazing Grace” (John Newton), 489
“America” (Paul Simon), 280
“America the Beautiful” (Samuel A. Ward), 91
American Academy
of Arts and Letters, 215
American Gothic, 468–469
American Revolution, 335
American Songbag, The (Carl Sandburg), 477
Americana Hotel, 28
Amram, David, 208
Animal Farm (George Orwell), 48
Anka, Paul, 11
Another Side of Bob Dylan, 30–31, 130, 333
Apollo Theatre, 61, 232–233
Apple, 211, 499
“Apple Suckling Tree,” 202
Arlen, Harold, 490
Armstrong, Louis, 461
Aronowitz, Al, 33–34, 160
Asch, Moe, 6, 9, 184–185
As the World Turns, 486
Asylum Records, 433
“At the Mound of Your Grave” (Woody Guthrie), 10
Atlanta Journal, 68
Atlantic Records, 328
Aurelius, Marcus, 482
“Autumn Leaves” (Johnny Mercer), 488, 492, 502, 504
Avalon, Frankie, 153
Aznavour, Charles, 465
“Baby, Please Don’t Go,” 23
“Baby, You’ve Been on My Mind,” 102
Bacall, Lauren, 215
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 56, 503
Baez, Joan, 4, 28, 35, 39, 44, 71, 84, 99, 119, 126–127, 212, 214, 217, 227, 234, 236, 237–238, 241, 291–292, 343
Bagelah Delicatessen, 207
Bailey, Pearl, 270
Baker, Arthur, 288, 455
Balanchine, George, 510
“Ballad in Plain D,” 57
“Ballad of a Thin Man,” 61, 123, 227, 331
“Ballad of Donald White,” 25
“Ballad of Emmett Till,” 8
“Ballad of Hollis Brown,” 103–104, 324
Balzac, Honore de,219
Band, the, 41, 93, 190, 193, 195, 201–202, 237, 323, 402, 452, 469
Band Aid, 324
Banks, Dave, 31–34, 40
“Barbara Allen” (traditional), 63, 163
Bardot, Brigitte, 3, 91, 123–124
Basement Tapes, The, 193, 195–196, 202, 475, 486
Basie, William James “Count,” 207, 494
Baudelaire, Charles, 235
BBC, xi–xii, 147
Beach Boys, the, 337, 484
Bear, the, 402
Beatles, the, xii, 46, 67, 72–73, 93, 110, 154, 167, 190, 208, 210, 213, 216, 253, 306, 474–475, 507
beatniks, 6, 248
Beck, 456
Beckett, Barry, 260
“Becky Deem” (Lead Belly), 397
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 124–125, 503
Before the Flood, 193, 201, 433
“Begin the Beguine” (Cole Porter), 396
Behind the Shades (Clinton Heylin), 383
Belafonte, Harry, 7–8
Bellows, George, 481
“Bells of Rhymney,” 56
Bennett, Tony, 80
Benton, Thomas Hart, 481
Berman, Shelly, 206
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 481
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lew Wallace), 482
Berlin, Irving, 209, 351, 468, 490, 503
Berry, Chuck, 67, 276, 376, 475, 489, 497
Beverly Hills Hotel, 354
“Beyond Here Lies Nothin’,” 470
Bibb, Leon, 10
Billboard, 59, 168
Biograph, 307, 311–313, 318, 328, 334, 454
Bitter End, the, 10, 22
Black, Frank, 158
Blackmore, Tim, 258
Blackwell, Francis Hillman “Scrapper,” 167
Blake, William, 127, 166, 186, 422
Blakely, Ronee, 217
Blanchett, Cate, 212
Bland, Bobbie Blue, 402
“Blind Willie McTell,” 313, 331, 452–453
Blonde on Blonde, 132, 148, 260, 304, 317, 323, 343, 387, 421, 458
Blood on the Tracks, 193–194, 200, 203, 211, 248, 261, 336, 345–346, 357, 380, 403, 487
Bloomfield, Mike, 256, 330, 402–403, 459, 468, 474, 481
“Blowin’ in the Wind,” 24, 26, 30, 71, 173, 181, 214, 216, 252, 262, 265, 382, 439–440, 464, 475
Blue, David, 237
Blue Angel, 9
“Blues in the Night” (Johnny Mercer), 504
Bob Dylan, 3, 11–12, 14
Bob Dylan (Daniel Kramer), 174
Bob Dylan at Budokan, 250, 255
Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography (Anthony Scaduto), 191
Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, The, 452, 459
Bob Dylan imitators contest, 321–323
Bob Dylan in Concert, 298
Bob Dylan Off the Record, 55
bobdylan.com, xviii
Bob Dylan’s American Journey exhibit, 1956–1966, 211
“Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream,” 298
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, 416
Bolan, Marc, 318
Bolden, Buddy, 167
Bolivar, Simon, 219
Bolton, Michael, 469
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 40
Bono, 270, 422
Bono, Sonny, 64
Book of Isaiah, 217
Boomtown Rats, 330
Booth, John Wilkes, 81
Bootleg Series, 339–341, 343, 349–350, 357–358, 360, 383, 390, 433, 452, 455
“Boots of Spanish Leather,” 30, 169
Boston Herald, 246
Bound for Glory (Woody Guthrie), 7
Bowie, David, 318
“Boxer, The” (Paul Simon), 280
Boy George, 332–333
Brand, Oscar, 12
Brando, Marlon, 47, 158
Bream, Jon, xi
Breathless, 221
“Bridge Over Troubled Water” (Paul Simon), 280
Brill Building, 341
Bringing It All Back Home (album), 41, 94, 233, 260, 298, 323, 421, 449
Bringing It All Back Home (Broadway musical), 211
Broadside, 9–10, 24, 26, 97, 100
Bronstein, Martin, 146
Brooklyn Hospital, 8
Brooks, Harvey, 402
Brown, Bob, 306
Brown, Hollis, 104
Brown, Hugh, 223
Brown, Willie, 468
Browning, Tod, 221
“Brownsville Girl,” 321, 325, 455
Bruce, Lenny, 206, 259
Bruni-Sarkozy, Carla, 463–464
Buck, Pearl, 514
Bueno, Eduardo, xiii
Buffalo Bill, 9
Bundy, McGeorge, 91
Bunuel, Luis, 221
Burnett, Chester Arthur. See Howlin’ Wolf
Burns, Ronnie, 188–189
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 219
Burroughs, William, 62
Bush, George W., 472–473
Butterfield, Paul, 99, 212, 402
“Bye and Bye,” 413
Byrds, the, 50, 56, 71, 130, 142, 236
Byron, George Gordon (Lord), 219, 235, 356, 357, 373–374, 402, 422
Café Alcazar, 264
Café Rienzi, 322
Café Wha?, 3, 13, 207, 273–274, 398
“California Brown-Eyed Baby,” 3
Calloway, Cab, 207, 377–378, 471
Campbell, Mike, 300, 470
Camus, Albert, 514
“Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?” 334
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 146
Candlestick Park, 421
“Can’t Let Little Children Starve to Death” (Bill McAdoo), 5
Capital Radio, 258
Capital Times, 219
Capitol Records, 491, 499
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 481
“Cardinal, The” (Tom Paxton), 168
“Caribbean Wind,” 334
Carmichael, Hoagy, 351
Carnegie Hall, 515
Carr, Leroy, 167
Carroll, Diahann, 465
Carter, Ann, 68
Carter, Jimmy, 204–205
Carter, Rubin “Hurricane,” 237
Carter Family, the, 393
Cash, Johnny, 10–11, 14, 208, 253,
436–437, 476–477
“Cat’s in the Well,” 459, 464
CBS, 71–72, 214, 275, 313, 324–326, 447, 482
Chandler, Dillard, 168
Chandler, Len, 8, 11, 17–18, 26
Chandler, Raymond, 425
“Changing of the Guard,” 362
Chaplin, Charlie, 97, 158
Charles, Ray, 337
Chess Records, 469
“Chestnut Mare” (the Byrds), 236
Chiasson, Dan, 215–216
Chicago Daily News, 92, 94
Chicago Manual of Style, xiii–xiv
Chicago Tribune, 384
Childs, Carole, 335
Chopin, Frédéric, 503
Christian, Charlie, 400
Christmas in the Heart, 219, 487
Chronicles, Volume One, xii–xiii, 1, 206, 213–214, 219, 437, 439, 447, 455, 457–459
Chuck D, 425
Cicero, 482
Ciccone, Madonna Louise. See Madonna
City Lights books, 125
Civil Rights Movement, 54, 82–84
Clancy, Liam, 270
Clancy Brothers, the, 108, 167, 270, 275, 482
Clapton, Eric, 323, 386, 489, 502
Clark, Dick, 483
Clausewitz, Carl von, 219
Claypool, Les, 52
“Clean Cut Kid,” 295
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. See Mark Twain
Cline, Patsy, 461
Clinton, Bill, 215
Clooney, Rosemary, 142, 276
Cochran, Eddie, 396
Cocker, Joe, 345
Coe, David Allen, 472
Coen, Ethan, 207
Coen, Joel, 207
Cohen, Leonard, 318, 408–409, 427–428, 511
Cohen, Scott, 314
Cold War, 71, 334–335, 482
Collins, Dorothy, 276
Collins, Judy, 335
“Colours” (Donovan) 99
Coltrane, John, 401
Columbia Records, 1, 8–9, 14, 23, 41–42, 59, 71–72, 116, 121–122, 129–130, 181, 193, 207, 276, 298, 311, 314, 318, 378, 392, 400, 403, 433, 441, 452, 489, 495
Columbo, Russ, 494
Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Art et des Lettres, 463–464
Concert House, 148
Confidence-Man, The (Herman Melville), 217
“Confidential” (Sonny Knight), 388
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 8
Conrad, Joseph, 217, 234
Cooley, Donnell Clyde “Spade,” 435