She invited him to join them at nearby Revere Beach with some other musician friends the following day. Hester, there with her then-husband Richard Fariña, was surprised to hear about her opening act that night: “There was Bob Dylan, he was going to open for me. That summer, a couple of months after Dylan met Hester, he heard that she was performing at Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., which had its own Village-like scene. He knew that he needed a recording contract to take it to the next level, but he’d been rejected by two labels, Folkways and Vanguard. In those days, Dylan was playing whenever he could in New York, doing the rounds at Cafe Wha?, the Gaslight and Kettle of Fish. Smith / courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment Dylan said Hester’s connection to Holly awed him: “That she had known and worked with Buddy Holly left no small impression on me,” he wrote in his 2005 memoir “Chronicles: Volume One.”ĭylan and John Hammond Sr. Hester had indeed done some work with Holly, a fellow Texan who died in a plane crash a few years earlier, in 1959.
A wide-eyed Dylan goes, ‘Did you know Buddy Holly?’” Then, as Hester told The Post: “Well, this young guy with a cap on pulls his chair over to the stage and sits beside me. “Here’s a song I like that was taught to me by Buddy Holly, it’s a song he wrote,” she said by way of introduction to “Lonesome Tears.” She was onstage late one night for her third set at Gerdes Folk City, a club in the heart of the burgeoning Greenwich Village folk scene. In a recent phone call, Hester described first meeting Dylan.
Don Hunstein / courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment Bruce Langhorne (from left), Carolyn Hester, Bob Dylan and Bill Lee at a recording session in September 1961. His lucky break came when he met Carolyn Hester, a folksinger from Texas who was four years older than him and had already established herself in the NYC folk scene. To get there, the stars had to align for this kid from Minnesota - born Robert Zimmerman - who first arrived in New York in January of 1961. 19 exactly six decades since he began recording his debut album. He may have sounded 80 years old then, but now Dylan is actually 80, and hitting the Beacon Theatre Nov. “I’d never seen or heard a performer like that before.” He was working at the label’s Midtown Manhattan office when he got called to the upstairs studio to see the new guy. And I was astonished,” Billy James, a young publicist for Columbia Records at the time, told The Post. “What I remember is this scruffy little kid sounding like he was 80 years old. It was 1961 in New York City, and a 20-year-old named Bob Dylan was recording his first album. ‘Money Blues’: Wife of Dylan collaborator loses suit over music catalogueīob Dylan finally returns to stage for virtual ‘Shadow Kingdom’ show Inside rock star sex predator allegations: From Elvis to Bowie to Dylan Paul McCartney claims Bob Dylan gave The Beatles weed that made the ‘ceiling’ move
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