:54:04
and are gone with the wind
:54:07
So this guy comes in.
:54:08
He didn't look too prepossessing.
He didn't look too interesting to me.
:54:13
He didn't look wild or...
:54:15
He looked like an ordinary kid.
:54:19
He didn't have the commanding presence.
:54:22
And he said, "Listen, I got some songs
I wanted you to hear".
:54:26
So I was, "Oh, God.
Can you come tomorrow?"
:54:28
I says, "Get out of here".
He says, "No, I want to sing you a song".
:54:31
So I let him sing the song,
then I kick him out...
:54:34
then he comes back, then he came back.
:54:36
And then I started pointing to people, I said,
"Listen, see that guy in the back room?
:54:39
"His name is Bob Dylan.
You should listen to him.
:54:42
"The guy's writing good songs. He's terrific".
:54:44
He told me he never knew
the word folk music...
:54:46
before he came to New York City.
What bullshit, God!
:54:50
And he'd never seen somebody playing
a banjo before he came to New York City.
:54:53
He'd never seen all these things
before he came to New York City.
:54:55
It opened his eyes up wide
to what folk music is...
:54:58
after having lived on the Mississippi River
and everything.
:55:00
"I was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941.
Moved to Gallup, New Mexico.
:55:05
"Then, until now...
:55:08
"lived in Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas,
North Dakota, for a little bit.
:55:12
"Started playing in carnivals
when I was 14 with guitar and piano".
:55:16
"Arvella Gray taught him blues songs...
:55:18
"a blind street singer from Chicago,
about four or five years ago.
:55:21
"Used to know a guy named
Mance Lipscomb, from Navasota, Texas.
:55:25
"Listened to him a lot. Met him
through his grandson, a rock 'n' roller".
:55:28
Now, listened to Arvella Gray in Chicago...
:55:32
Mance Lipscomb in Texas...
:55:34
I should have figured out right away,
he's bullshitting me.
:55:36
And I only found out later...
:55:39
that he had borrowed 400 records
from Tony Glover...
:55:42
or something like that,
which he still hasn't returned.
:55:45
And things like that.
:55:47
So I was a setup, a very easy setup,
and I'm proud of it.
:55:51
Because the guy wrote good songs.
I didn't care what he was telling me.
:55:54
I saw it advertised one day
:55:56
A Bear Mountain picnic was comin' my way
:55:59
Come along with us and take a trip