The Dylan Tapes by Anthony Scaduto

Author:Anthony Scaduto [Scaduto, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO004000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, MUS017000 MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, MUS050000 MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2022-04-26T00:00:00+00:00

Who else? See, Bobby would walk into a room and be in his own little world like he’d pick up a book and read it or at least leaf through it. He would not make contact with other people in the room. Somebody would say, “Bob, how about a song?” And if you coaxed him enough, he’d sing maybe for quite awhile even, and as soon as he was finished, he’d split.

Right.

He had the strangest approach. And then when he really wanted to get some serious work done, he wanted me to throw everybody else out and then just the two of us work together. I kept saying, “Bobby, I can’t do that. I have loyalties to more than just you. You can’t expect me to just devote myself entirely to you.”

What was his reaction to this?

He would be teed off. He’d say, “You promised,” and this and that. “You said” and “You told me that.” I said, “I will when I can, Bobby, but I can’t always.”

What were some of the things he was asking you to do?

Well, type up all his material and then type up some of the stuff that was current that he was doing at the time. He then proceeded to throw it into the bottom of his guitar case, loose just as he had done with the written scribble, but at least these were typewritten pages.

What about Suze’s trip to Italy, the first trip to Italy?

Oh, that was such a nightmare!

. . . with Mama? Was that in the summer of ’61?

I don’t remember just when.

Tell me about that nightmare.

All of us were trying the best way we knew how to keep Bobby together, and Bobby was falling apart at the seams. He looked awful and he just let himself go. He smelled awful. And he drank too much. And his performances were way below par. He was so depressed we were afraid he was going to do something to himself—to hurt himself. We really were frightened.

Did you ever talk about it amongst yourselves, the possibility of it?

Oh yes. And then he turned out all this poignant material. And that’s when “Girl from the North Country” came out and it couldn’t have been about anybody in Minnesota. He was all wrapped up in Suze.

No, it’s not on the first album. See, there’s a problem here. He was writing things and they wouldn’t be released publicly until sometime a year later.

Well, we’d been hearing them all that time.

Yeah. At that time, he was writing “Boots of Spanish Leather.” When was that being written? At this same time?

No, during the time Suze was away.

Towards the end of the relationship. But you recall that “Boots” was written in this first summer, this first trip that Suze made with the family?

I am almost certain that it was, yes. And then there was the one with the line “Only when my own true love is near me.”

I don’t recall the title of that song.

Neither do I. It was—I can hear the melody in my head, but I can’t put the lyrics to the tune.

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