In honor of Dylan's 70th, and because I just reckoned with another Midwestern Jewish artist's relationship with Brecht, it's worth revisiting this juicy piece by Jason Zinoman after Chronicles came out. If Woody Guthrie gave us the folkie Bob, it may have been Brecht who gave us Bob in full, according to Esther Harcourt, a former graduate student at Victoria University in New Zealand:"Dylan inherited Guthrie's role a…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:50PM on May 24, 2011