From: pamelajfk1@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 12:30:17 PM UTC-5, Christopher Rollason wrote:   
   > The title of Dylan's album 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' has been traced to ‘My   
   rough and rowdy ways’, a song recorded in 1930 by Jimmie Rodgers.    
   >    
   > However, an alternative possible source is a passage in Woody Guthrie's   
   autobiography of 1943, Bound For Glory: in that book's chapter VI, a character   
   declares: 'I'm gonna give up my good ol' ruff [sic] and rowdy ways' (p. 95 of   
   the 1974 Picador    
   edition).    
   >    
   > Was Guthrie influenced by Rodgers, and Dylan by both? Here as with   
   Tarantula, there may be more than one source for Dylan's title ...   
   Nice sleuthing. Bluesmen 'steal' from each other in order to create their own   
   work.  But they also honor their mentors by quoting them. So Dylan is quoting   
   Woody, and Woody is quoting Rodgers...the blues legacy of RARW...   
      
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