“He was clearly unique, charismatic…” – this was the start of Bob Dylan

First published in Uncut Take 300 (May 2022 issue)... First published in Uncut Take 300 (May 2022 issue)… Bob Dylan had a joke he wanted to tell the crowd at Gerde’s Folk City. It was 1961, and he had only just started booking gigs at the Italian restaurant and folk joint, which was already the epicentre of the Greenwich Village music scene. Dylan usually took the stage in work pants, a denim shirt and his Dutch Boy cap, his harmonica braced around his neck, and he addressed crowd