raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/node/7342 Horne, Philip Flood Songs, Dylan,and the Mississippi Blues Raritan Volume 33 Number 2 It’s remarkable that Dylan, who was still touring in 2012, was taught a guitar style by the same man who influenced the legendary Robert Johnson (1911–1938, no relation to Lonnie). It completes a circle, since in the early 1960s the young Dylan heard an advance copy of the first reissue of Robert Johnson’s music, given to him by his first producer, John Hammond of CBS—who in 1938 had tried to book Johnson for a concert at Carnegie Hall that December before discovering that Johnson had died in August. Dylan says in Chronicles that “Johnson’s words made my nerves quiver like piano wires”; and that it was the combination of Johnson’s “dark night of the soul,” Woody Guthrie’s “hopped-up union meeting sermons,” Brecht and Weill’s sardonic style in “Pirate Jenny,” and the nineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s surreal dislocations that allowed him to find his own voice. raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu
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