With Bob Dylan’s 35th album, Tempest, coming out next month, the anticipation is stirring up a number of Dylan stories. Sean O’Neal at the Onion’s A.V. Club recently visited Bob Dylan’s hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota.
In the video, O’Neal ponders about how the town influenced Dylan’s music, and he takes us to several Dylan landmarks, including Dylan’s — er Robert Zimmerman’s — childhood home. Although that house is now on a road named after the singer, Hibbing does little else to acknowledge the hometown singer. O’Neal also showed the high school auditorium that was the location of Dylan’s disappointing talent show appearance.
[2018 Update] Unfortunately, the video is no longer available. So, instead here is a short video about Bob Dylan’s hometown made for a KTCA special.
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