Just Like Bob Zimmerman’s Blues: Dylan in Minnesota

Engel, Dave. Mesabi, Rudolph, WI: River City Memoirs, [1997]. First edition, second printing; 4to, pp. 219, [1]; sepia colored photo illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers; fine. “American music bucked the Mississippi upstream from New Orleans to St. Louis and Davenport, flared east to Chicago, then zigzagged north towards Hibbing, where it coalesced with polka bands, your hit parade, Faron Young, and Bobby Vee, into the phenomenon of Robert Zimmerman. This is an immigrant’s tale and a wicked messenger’s; scholars will consult just like a Bob’s in Romans blues for many years to help explicate Dylan and the genre he created,” Toby Thompson, author of Positively Main Street.