Bob Dylan's message to Martin Carthy 9/27/2025

[BluesRunTheGame]

If you don’t know, Martin Carthy is a giant of English folk music. They had a big tribute concert celebrating his contributions to the world of music today. This little message by Bob Dylan was shown at the show.

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In ‘61 Dylan asked Carthy to show him how to play Scarborough Fair. Dylan never worked up his own version.

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Pretty quickly though, he wrote a new song using a melody similar to Carthy’s arrangement. This is probably as close as we’ll get to the very beginning of the singer/songwriter movement.

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