And of course, the late 50s still were nursing along a brilliant rockabilly scene, the ascendancy of doo wop, girl groups, and kick ass jazz with the likes of Sonny Rollins and Max Roach.

Hardly a musical wasteland.

The crap music referred to on the Dylan show might have been a reflection of what Dylan was listening to, but he doesn't--can't, in fact--speak for what all the young people in the late 50s were listening to on commercial radio stations trying to kill off rock and roll and the obliteration of the color lines in US society.