Blind Willie MacTell claimed to have written The Dying Crapshooter's Blues. But he didn't; it was released at least three times on a recording. However, maybe it is true that nobody sang the blues like Blind Willie did?

There's a link to an Elijah Wald lecture somewhere on here. In it, Wald plays an earlier version of what I know as 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right'. I didn't realise just how closely Dylan took material from elsewhere. Though obviously he referenced stuff a lot.


Here's the link again:

Wald Lecture

You would expect something better than Spark Notes from somebody who got a Nobel Prize for Literature.