Jack, Dylan used Woody's image to fashion one for himself, a concerted show business ploy, borrowing the merchant marine hat and the harmonica rack, and singing as if to ape Woody's on a bad day.

Woody in the Fifties wasn't as far gone as has been stated by many who didn't know him.
I knew him in the Fifties and we picked music together.

Although Woody was a socialist at heart, defying any real political category, preferring to play music in lieu of talking politics, knew beforehand the dark road on which he was headed.