Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline (CBS)
Mick Farren, Oz, May 1969
SOMEBODY ONCE said that when Bob Dylan first started his career he wanted to be Elvis Presley much more than he wanted to be Woody Guthrie, the trouble was that there was an opening for a Guthrie so he took the gig.
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