Life Bookazines - Bob Dylan - 2020

50 LIFE BOB DYLAN

relied on her for the kind of guidance one might seek from

an occultist; Sara would suggest when it was propitious to

travel, and when it wasn’t. Lynn Musgrave was a music jour-

nalist living in Woodstock, and knew Sara. She told Shelton,

“She is not Mother Earth in the heavy way, but she just rolls

with nature. She has a low center of gravity, if not quite inde-

structible, then something close to it. That is what it must

take to sit up there in Woodstock, being married to Dylan

and never going out much. I don’t think she complains

much, either. I got the impression of her being strong. That

SO DYLAN HAS FAMOUSLY GONE ELECTRIC,

and he is taking his show on the road. It’s

fabulous—it’s fab—to compare the Dylan-

invading-Europe photographs with pictures

of the Beatles in America from the same

approximate time. With the Englishmen,

even though George Harrison in particular

had already begun to hate the tours and they

would soon end, the “lads” are still all smiles.

Dylan obviously feels no such compunction.

Maybe the booing is playing a part.

line, ‘she speaks like silence’—that’s Sara.” Shelton himself

met Sara in 1968 at the first public function she attended with

her famous husband, a tribute to Woody Guthrie at Carnegie

Hall, and later wrote, “mostly on her own, [she] moved about

rather shyly, gravitating toward people she knew from

Woodstock. She appeared demure, yet slightly ill at ease in a

throng fascinated by her husband. I chatted briefly with her,

and noted the deep large eyes, the glowing complexion, the

air of quiet detachment. Friends of Sara considered her then

as extremely warm and devoted toward a select few.”

BARRY FEINSTEIN (3)

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