In the post below on the forthcoming auction of Bob Dylan's juvenilia, commenter "formerly it takes a lot etc." directs us to this message board, which points out that the "Little Buddy" poem is actually an old Hank Snow song, making this one of the earliest examples of Dylan's process of cultural collage. The Guardian comments, archly: "Dylan wouldn't be the first teenager to cheat on his homework, but he's almost certainly the first to find the end result so valuable. Christie's, who valued Little Buddy at £10,000, have yet to comment on the discovery that they are Snow's lyrics."
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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I personally like Dylan's lyin', cheatin' ways when he's biting books about Japanese gangsters.
Remember this:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10576176194220600.html
from the WSJ article:
"Bob Dylan is a very famous American country singer, yes?" asks Dr. Saga. "I'm not familiar with these things."
NPR did an interview with him about the plagarizing and the guy was all, I'm an artist, he's an artist, it's all good!
It seems Dylan should have a character in one of his songs named Dr. Saga. He could be an old pulp cowboy novelist.
ah, now i remember that from the post below. anyway...