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The house is located at 56 Parnassus Lane (formerly 2188 Stoll Road). The house was built by Ottmar Gramms, who bought the land in 1952. The house was newly built when Rick Danko , then part of Bob Dylan 's backing band, found it as a rental in 1967, after the cancellation of Dylan's tour due to his 1966 motorcycle crash.
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan is a 2005 documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th-century American popular music and culture. The film focuses on the period between Dylan's arrival in New York in January 1961 and his "retirement" from touring following his motorcycle accident in July 1966.
In the meantime, Dylan turned his attention to another folk-rock experiment conducted by John P. Hammond, an old friend and musician whose father, John H. Hammond, originally signed Dylan to Columbia. Hammond was planning an electric album around the blues songs that framed his acoustic live performances of the time.
As for whether Dylan actually sang his composition "Song to Woody" to Guthrie, Norton says "it was his first composition, so I don't think there's any doubt he would have played it for him."
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
In August 1962, Dylan changed his name to Bob Dylan, [a 2] and signed a management contract with Albert Grossman. [51] Grossman remained Dylan's manager until 1970, and was known for his sometimes confrontational personality and protective loyalty. [52] Dylan said, "He was kind of like a Colonel Tom Parker figure ... you could smell him coming."
The 1974 Live Recordings, a mammoth new 27-disc box set, transports listeners back half a century, presenting a very different Bob Dylan: younger, leaner, and perhaps more than a little desperate ...