Bob Dylan - Roads Rapidly Changing

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In 1940, New York City became the centre of activity for an emerging folk see Alongside leading lights such as Lead Belly & Josh White were two white musi & performers, Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie. These artists in particular would become pioneering figures in the redefinition of American Folk, penning their own material in the mould of the traditional tunes that had inspired them, & using music & lyrics as a vessel for political commentary. But by the mid-1950s ill-health plagued Guthrie & the post-WW2 anti-communist witch-hunt had almost put an end to Seegers career. Folk refused to die however & by the late 50s a new breed of musicians
- having seen Rock n Roll morph into a sad parody of its former glory
- were again looking to the past for inspiration. One such performer was Robert Allen Zimmerman out of Minneapolis. Informed & influenced by Woody Guthrie, he travelled east, hit the city, & the rest, as they say, is history. But while the now.. .