“Well you have to understand that I’m not a melodist. My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs or variations of the blues form. What happens is, I’ll take a song and simply start playing it in my head. That’s the way I meditate.”
“I wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in 10 minutes, just put words to an old spiritual, probably something I learned from Carter Family records. That’s the folk music tradition – you use what has been handed down. ‘The Times They Are A-Changing’ is probably from an old Scottish folk Song.”........Bob Dylan
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From The Bob Spitz Dylan Biography
After the taping, Dylan and his new band were scheduled to fly back to New York early the next morning. According to Bob Spitz in his biography of Dylan, Stoner decided to pull an all-nighter. Dylan had the same idea, and the two of them walked around Chicago until the sun came up. Stoner said Dylan did this all the time because he could experience the city anonymously. The duo talked a little bit about a tour, but mostly about old rockabilly and "race" records. When he mentioned an old Johnny Burnette track, "Bertha Lou", Dylan knew who the artist was. Then Stoner went on the say that it sounded like a song they recorded for Desire (he did not mention it was the out-take single "Rita May"), Dylan ended the discussion by saying, "Oh, yeah?". Stoner said, " . . . at that moment, I realized that the line between plagiarism and adaption was so blurred that it wasn't even an issue for him."
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