![]() ![]() The feeling was most certainly mutual, “In plain terms, Johnny was and is the North Star you could guide your ship by him – the greatest of the greats then and now,” Dylan said upon Cash’s passing in 2003. He wrote back almost immediately, saying he’d been following my music since ‘I Walk the Line,’ and so we began a correspondence.” After a while at that, I wrote Bob a letter telling him how much of a fan I was. “And I’d put on Freewheelin’ backstage, then go out and do my show, then listen again as soon as I came off. “I had a portable record player that I’d take along on the road,” he noted. Additionally, Cash did write in his autobiography that it all began with letters that he penned to the new, hotshot musician. However, his son’s admission pokes a giant hole in that story. A common misconception is that Dylan and Cash first met at Newport Folk Festival in 1964. ![]()
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