Episode 447 of the Bowery Boys, Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village.

Come gather around people wherever you're wrong.

Hey, it's the Bowery Boys.

Hey. Hi there, welcome to the Bowery Boys.

This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers.

And today we're turning back the clock to 1961.

To a specific date, in fact, January 24, 1961, the day that a young singer from Minnesota named Bob Zimmerman arrived in New York City and played a small Greenwich Village Club called Cafe Wah.

He would later be known as Bob Dylan.

Wah?

What?

What?

Bob Dylan.

Legendary folk rock artist, one of the greatest living songwriters, and a man often shrouded

in myth and mystery due to his unprecedented influence on modern culture.

All culture, not even just music growth. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, which was a first for a musician.

But we should clarify, today's show is not exactly or only about Bob Dylan.

No, today we will be staying mostly in our wheelhouse.

The world simply does not need two more guys on a podcast charming in on Bob Dylan's music, right?

Instead, today we'll be talking about Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village or the music scene in the village that

he participated in, focusing within the years 1961 and 1965. An interesting time in New York

and in American music. As many of you know, there's a new film out this month called A Complete Unknown,

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