in Dylan's autobiography 'Chronicles' (which i'm rereading again) he tells the tale of when he was visiting Woody in hospital - he told him that he had a load of unreleased songs at his house in Brooklyn. according to Bob he walked across a swampy field to get there to find that Marge, Woody's wife, wasn't there and his son, Arlo , knew nothing about the recordings. Bob returned , unsuccessful, across the swampy field.

   'forty years later, these songs would fall into the hands of Billy Bragg and the group Wilco and they would put melodies to them , bring them to full life and record them. It was all done under the direction of Woody's daughter, Nora, these performers probably weren't even born when i had made that trip out to brooklyn' He sounds a bit sniffy here, though much of the first half of the book is full of his lively, interested and totally engaged young mind. i'm in the middle of the pressures of fame stage now...not so much fun