Bob Dylan’s Country Music Heroes

Bob Dylan’s Country Music Heroes

When Bob Dylan was a child growing up in the 1940s and 1950s in Duluth, Minnesota, he was an avid fan of the radio. “I was the last generation that grew up without TV,” he once said. Much of the music he heard in those decades was country and western. In interviews, he’s talked extensively about enjoying Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, and Hank Williams and other stars in live broadcasts from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Throughout Dylan’…