“Why…did he ever write anti-war songs and songs inspired by and inspiring to the civil rights movement? ‘That was my chance,’ he says frankly. ‘In the Village there was a little publication called Broadside and with a topical song you could get in there. I wasn’t getting far with the things I was doing, songs like I’m writing now, but Broadside gave me a start.’ It also brought him the attention and friendship of Joan Baez, undisputed queen of folk music, and Pete Seeger, for many years a folksinger and composer known in many nations” (Frances Taylor in Bob Dylan The Early Years A Retrospective, 1990).
Bob Dylan (1941- ) “The Times They Are A-Changin’”
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