Ian MacDonald – “Wild Mercury: A Tale of Two Dylans” (2001) « The ...

The critical individualism of young men like Caulfield, Dean, Brando, Jack Kerouac, and soon Bob Dylan would have found scant room for expression in any earlier age (with one exception: the 19th century rebel poet Arthur Rimbaud, ... The recording, which opens The Bootleg Series, is from the so-called “Hotel” tape, made in Minneapolis in December 1961, 11 months after he arrived in New York. It's an arrestingly convincing performance in every way â€" but this performance ...