" . . .a young folk poet who you might say looks like Huckleberry Finn, if he lived in the 20th century. His name is Bob Dylan" - Studs Terkel
After his final Freewheelin' session on April 24, 1963, Bob Dylan traveled to Chicago for a live appearance and a radio interview .
On the 25th, he played a gig at a new club called The Bear, which is also the nickname of Dylan's manager Albert Grossman, who just happened to be one of the owners. The following day, Dylan was at Chicago's WFMT radio studio, to record an appearance for Studs Terkel's Wax Museum program. The show was taped for future broadcast.
Dylan sang seven songs: "Farewell", "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", "Bob Dylan's Dream", "Boots Of Spanish Leather", "John Brown", "Who Killed Davey Moore?", and "Blowin' In The Wind". Between songs, Terkel would chat with Dylan. You can read a summary of the interview here.
NPR has the Dylan appearance archived on its website. You can hear the entire one-hour program by clicking on the "play" button above.
You can also enjoy Terkel's interviews with Louis Armstrong and Pete Seeger by following the links of this 2005 NPR article, Studs Terkel, Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.
Louis "Studs" Terkel hosted Wax Museum for one hour each weekday from 1952 to 1997. A list of those he interviewed would include Leonard Bernstein, Marlon Brando, Billie Holiday, Buster Keaton, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ravi Shankar.
Terkel was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, but years later received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two. He died on October 31, 2008, at the age of 96.
(Note: Michael Krogsgaard dates the Dylan appearance on Wax Museum as May 3.)
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I have the audio of this interview that I got from a bootleg site. It dates it as April 23, 1963, but in the introduction it says that the interview was recorded in May of 1963.
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