But that’s the way the folk singer likes it.
InJames MangoldsA Complete Unknown,Timothee Chalametfingerpicks the tussle-haired troubadours guitar andstands insideBob Dylans shoes.
They remember what they want.
They forget the rest.
Bob Dylan is a master of making up past histories and self-mythology.
As the movie reiterates, Bob mentions being from Gallup, New Mexico.
But in 1961, the southern roots inferred a street-cred musical pedigree.
Bob is obviously having fun in the interview.
Dylans 2020 albumRough and Rowdy Waysopens with I Contain Multitudes.
In the 1973 western feature filmPat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Bob plays a guy named Alias.
Pressed for details, the gunslinger replies Alias is anything you want.
- As Dylan told Bradley, It goes back to that destiny thing.
Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and The Night That Split the Sixties(2015).
Perhaps Mangold and Cocks, like so many of Dylans fans, prefer the artists self-portrait.
The article was not new when Dylan recorded his first album, Bob Dylan, in November.
Dylan did not meet Woody Guthrie at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains, New Jersey.
Dylan tried to visit Guthrie where he lived, in Howard Beach, Queens.
The meeting eventually occurred in Jerseys East Orange at a private home of friend Bob Gleason.
He was not sandwiched between the two headliners.
Dylan, meanwhile, played July 26.
The gift was a country artist tradition, and each favored a wide range of Martin makes.
Cash wasnt at the Newport Festival in 1965.
This detail is not even part of Dylans mythology.
But now it is Hollywood legend.
Like Marlon Brando before him.
It was not, apparently, the premeditated assault on traditionalist sensibilities depicted onscreen.
Dylan was not the first electric act at the Newport Folk Festival either.
The controversy is, and has always been, overplayed.
Dylans new single was rising on the charts, and it was as electrifying as it was divisive.
DylansBringing It All Back Homewas released in March 1965.
Side one is backed by a tight rock band, side two features Dylan on acoustic guitar.
For the July 25 closing, Dylan played his first concert with electric instruments.
Legend says the opening song, Maggies Farm, drew the bulk of the ire.
If I had an axe, Id chop the microphone cable right now, Seeger is quoted as saying.
The sound balance achieves aggressive perfection by Phantom Engineer.
They didnt give a shit about us being electric.
They just wanted more.
Once againA Complete Unknownprinted the legend.
Dubbed the barefoot Madonna, Baez signed with Vanguard Records and made the cover ofTimemagazine within two years.
Baez went to her usual Greenwich Village haunt to check out the new talent with the growing reputation.
The romance between Bob and Joan ignited later.
Had this happened, wed never have heard the end of it.
It would add a whole chapter to the mythos.
Bob Dylans self-mythology amuses him, and fans and critics are free to take part in the fun.
You were so good with words and at keeping things vague.
A Complete Unknown is playing in theaters now.
