Dylan is 84 years old. Willie Nelson is 92. Neil Young is 79. John Mellencamp is 73. All of them performed at Farm Aid 40.

A lot of people in the folk community weren't loving Bob Dylan's use of electric instruments, but it yielded these three enormous hits.

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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.

But when asked in a 1984 interview to name the songwriters who truly impressed him, Dylan didn’t name the usual suspects.

For the rhythm, Kristofferson was influenced by Mickey Newbury’s “Why You Been Gone So Long?” As for the song’s general narrative, of the hitchhikers’ journey across the country, Kristofferson said in ...

He’d give Barbara lyrics to type up after he and Felice emerged from their office, songs in hand after a spree of ...