The Troubadour as Teacher By Tim Shorrock As I look back on Bob Dylan at 80 years old, I’m most struck by his role as a teacher. That phase began for me in 1964, when I first knowingly heard a Dylan song. It was the visionary “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” as performed by Pete Seeger in Tokyo, Japan, where I grew up. I was mesmerized, hooked for life: As Bob would write years later about the Italian poets he loved, “every one of them words rang true, and glowed like burnin’ coal.” Since the days of my youth, Bob … Continue reading Bob Dylan