Polka Dot Dylan

"The jazz and poetry guys of the 1950's woke up 10 years later and here is this squirrelly little kid who has done the things they wanted to do—to get poetry into the streets, to the people, and on the jukeboxes.

~~Ralph J. Gleason (1966) journalist and co-founder of Monterrey Jazz Festival and Rolling Stone magazine

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On this date in 1961, nineteen year old Bob arrives in New York City.

"At last I was here, in New York City, a city like a web too intricate to understand and I wasn't going to try.

I was there to find singers, the ones I'd heard on records…..most of all to find Woody Guthrie.

When I arrived, it was dead-on winter.

The cold was brutal and every artery of the city was snowpacked…icy roads didn't faze me.

I didn't know a single soul in this dark freezing metropolis but that was all about to change-and quick.

- Chronicles: Volume One