I used most of the money I acquired through weekly allowances and my first jobs to acquire as much of the Dylan catalog as I could. It just electrified me, especially “In My Time of Dyin’” and “House of the Rising Sun.” Anyway, I’ve never had as strong a reaction as I had to that record. At the time I was mostly into indie rock and blues. I don’t exactly remember what drew me to the Dylan album it may have been hearing “Tangled Up In Blue” on the radio a few weeks earlier. I bought the first Sonic Youth album (didn’t enjoy it, sadly), the first Bob Dylan album, and something else I can’t recall. I received some money as a birthday gift and went to my local record store to try out three new artists. Thousand Highways himself, who prefers to just go by the initials CS, to get an overview of his compilations, and a guide for where newcomers might want to start.īelieve it or not, it was hearing his first record around 2004.

And there are many - I counted over 70 compilations over there! So, in what will be the first of an occasional series of interviews with notable Dylan fans (what’s a less stuffy word than “Dylanologist”?), I checked in with Mr. Thousand Highways is no longer a going concern, but the creator takes care to keep the old download links alive. Many have made similar live-Bob compilations ( ahem ), but I’m not sure anyone has done it as consistently well as he has. At that unpretentious Blogspot, someone had spent several years sharing some of the most amazing Dylan compilations I’d ever heard, complete with killer artwork and meticulous track-by-track liner notes. When I returned, I soon discovered an amazing fan site whose lifespan I had entirely missed: Thousand Highways. In fact, I started it in part because I missed being deep in Dylan-world and wanted to reconnect to that level of fandom.

I returned around the time I started this newsletter, in early 2020. Living in NYC made it easy I could still see him once a year when he inevitably came through, but otherwise not pay super close attention. No big reason, and not even a conscious decision. As I’ve mentioned here before, after a decade of fairly obsessive Dylan fandom starting in the mid-2000s, I semi-checked out in the early 2010s.

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