He’d give Barbara lyrics to type up after he and Felice emerged from their office, songs in hand after a spree of ...
But when asked in a 1984 interview to name the songwriters who truly impressed him, Dylan didn’t name the usual suspects.
The song directly references Dylan's own "Song To Woody," where Dylan paid tribute to his idol Woody Guthrie. Bowie cleverly created a musical inception – a song about a song about an influence.