Joan Baez, once Bob Dylan's lover, called him "the unwashed phenomenon, the Original vagabond". Unwashed and a vagabond, perhaps, but Mr Dylan wasn't the original one among American musicians, for that was Woody Guthrie. Unlike Mr Dylan, to whom success and fortune came at a young age, Guthrie never really got on a sound financial footing. This, as much as anything, marks the difference between the two men.
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