When I was first getting into Bob Dylan in around 1975 this was the song I initially got into. Maybe because it was it overtly pop. I was going out with a fellow student at Burwood Teacher’s College. Her name was Leonie. She lived in Balwyn North. I don’t think the Dad ever liked me and we were together for years. The first time I went to her place we were playing records in her living room and it was the first time I’d listened to a whole album of Bob Dylan. The album was his Greatest Hits with the dark blue cover and his silhouette on the cover. I was immediately converted. I didn’t realise how great the man was my initial knowledge of the man being Lay Lady lay and Knocking on Heaven’s Door which both were in the charts.
Leonie had a guitar and let me borrow it so I could have a go. I got an old songbook and learnt a few chords from that. Suddenly I was up and away and buying my own guitar.
I started buying up big starting with that album then Greatest Hits 3 which was a double. I bought his songbooks and learnt the whole eleven minutes of Desolation Row. I did forget the words sometimes though.
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