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    Judy Collins

    Feb 18, 2022 4 minutes

    BOB DYLAN

    Bringing It All Back Home COLUMBIA, 1965

    I knew him in Colorado when he was still Robert Zimmerman, a scruffy kid with an engineer’s hat on singing old Woody Guthrie blues – badly chosen and badly sung, I thought! Then in 1963 I was invited to a party at Al Grossman’s house in Woodstock. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard a voice coming up the stairs, so I went down to where [] was singing behind a locked door in the basement and listened for two hours to him writing “Mr came out, he was really burnin’ up the tracks. He changed everything.

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