Inside Bob Dylan’s Lost Interviews and Unseen Letters

On March 18th, 1971, Bob Dylan sat down in his Manhattan office, put his feet up on a table, strummed a guitar, and opened up like he rarely, if ever, had before. He was talking to his old friend Tony Glover, the first of four interviews they conducted that year. At various moments Dylan reacts to being booed at Newport in 1965 ("It was a strange night"), recalls writing "Subterranean Homesick Blues" ("story of a mad kid"), remarks on his craft ("My work is a moving thing"), and dismisses his honorary doctorate from Princeton ("a strange type of degree — you can't really use it for anything"). Feeling unfairly dissected by dimwitted critics who milked his lyrics for autobiographical information, he fired back. "Do you think Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno?" he asked. "Or that Paul Simon would throw himself down over a troubled Hudson River and let somebody use him as a bridge?" The interviews totaled three and a half hours, and never saw the light of day — until now. Speaking with Glover, Dylan's jangled nervous energy of the previous decade had vanished: He was untroubled and erudite, willing to shed light on things he'd never… Read full this story

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