A Young Man With An Old Man’s Voice

This was the first ever article Peter wrote for Bobdylan.com, it later featured in his book The Joker And The Thief.

My first conscious remembrance of hearing a Bob Dylan song was in June of  1963, about a month before my twelfth birthday, at a Pete Seeger Concert in Lambertville, New Jersey my parents took me to. Seeger sang a lot of new songs by new songwriters that afternoon, but two songs stuck out: “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and “Who Killed Davey Moore?” At the end of “Hard Rain,” my dad turned to me and asked, “Do you know what that was about?” “The bomb,” I replied, but it was a question.  I didn’t know it at the time, but those two songs were the beginning of something that was going to change and affect my life.