Is Bob Dylan authentic?

Is Bob Dylan authentic?

Dylan’s work has never been about his own personal authenticity, his own voice. He has invented different masks for a number of different characters over the course of his career. It is as though Dylan, at different stages of his career, has adopted and completely inhabited different personas.

Who was Coyote written about?

Coyote, the first song on the album, describes her brief relationship with Sam Shepard, whom she met at the Rolling Thunder Revue, the concert tour that Bob Dylan assembled with a travelling caravan of musicians. Shepard was hired by Dylan to write a script for a movie based on the events in the Rolling Thunder Revue.

Is Bob Dylan elusive?

For someone so famous, Dylan remains surprisingly elusive. There are over 1,000 critical books and biographies, but it is not known for sure how many times he has been married (at least twice), and how many children he has (five or more).

Was Bob Dylan the voice of a generation?

Bob Dylan was the voice of a generation. It’s a tremendous cliché. By now the phrase “voice of a generation” is so frequently associated with Dylan, used almost interchangeably with the “singer/songwriter” often placed before his name, that he could probably get it trademarked as his own personal slogan.

Did Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell ever have any issues?

But they had some issues. Mitchell seemed to take issue with being compared to Dylan, in an L.A.Times interview in 2010, when she said, “Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception.

Is old nasal voice Bob Dylan?

Mitchell was speaking to the LA Times as part of a joint interview with performance artist John Kelly, who has performed Mitchell’s songs in drag. The Times interviewer referred to Old Nasal Voice in passing, citing his name-change from Robert Zimmerman to Bob Dylan.

Did Bob Dylan and Marianne Mitchell ever tour together?

We are like night and day, he and I.” Oddly, they had actually toured together in the mid-seventies. Mitchell was one of the performers for Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue, a time which she had become addicted to cocaine, according to Rolling Stone.