I've always taken it as read that much of the guitar work on Freewheelin' was by session men - Bruce Langhorne on Corrinna is the only one that's fessed up to on the album sleeve, but that rolling harmojcally adventurous stuff on Girl of the North Country - screams 'clever session man' at most people who have played guitar longer than five minutes.

I've never resented this - and I will always be a lifelong devotee of Dylan - guitar, harmonica, songwriter. I don't require him to do all his guitar playing, answer his own phone, make his own breakfast, design his own record sleeve, etc.

All I would say is this. Put the first album on your record player. Close your eyes. Imagine Bob is standing there in the corner, a twenty year old man, and I think you will conclude you are in the presence of genius.

That guy on the early footage of Newport was just bashing his guitar in a very monotous way. Three years later by Aother Side of Bob Dylan there are exquisite little slides in the playing of All I Really Want to Do- he has upped his game. Well done, there was no compulsion to do this as he was an ace songwriter - Kristoferson never bothered to.

So who did all that clever stuff on 1st album, Freight Train Blues, Baby Let Me Follow You Down, In my Time of Dyin'.

To suggest that someone would be able to do all that stuff, and just reined himself is daft. Musicians are too vain for that. If they can play a riff, they tend to let you hear it. Trust me on this one. I've known a lot of musicians.