When the Ship Comes In
Bob Dylan seems to have written 'When the Ship Comes In' after a hotel clerk insulted him for his shabby attire. So Joan Baez told Anthony Scaduto for his influential Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography (1972). Last year the University of Minnesota Press published transcripts of Scaduto's interviews for the bio in The Dylan Tapes: Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin' Early Bob Dylan (2021). Most recently, Clinton Heylin refers to
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