Cigar Box Banjo (2010)
Cigar Box Banjo
“The disease is progressive and fatal, and Guthrie was hospitalized for the last decade of his life. One of his regular visitors at the Brooklyn State Hospital was a young musician from Hibbing, Minnesota, who idolized Guthrie and the things he represented. As Time magazine reported in November 1963, “The tradition of Broonzy1 and Guthrie is being carried on by a large number of disciples, most notably a promising young hobo named Bob Dylan . . . He dresses in sheepskin and a black corduroy Huck... Finn cap, which covers only a small part of his long, tumbling hair . . . He delivers his songs in a studied nasal that has just the right clothespin-on-the-nose honesty to appeal to those who most deeply care.” Bob Dylan is going to turn up at key points in this narrative, as you will see, and this is an appropriate moment in my own musical history to bring him in.2 My friend Bobby G. and I entered into a brief business partnership when we were approximately twelve years old. I was twelve years old, anyway.MoreLess
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