A Session With Bob Dylan
Happy Traum, Guitar World, 1999
IN OCTOBER OF 1971, I got a call from Bob Dylan asking me if I'd like record some songs with him for his Greatest Hits, Volume II compilation. Could I do it tomorrow, and would I bring my guitar and banjo – and, oh yeah, how about a bass, too? (Never mind that I didn't own a bass, and had never played one in public before. I borrowed one – fast.)
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