In the autumn of 1967, Bob Dylan took a mysterious trip to Nashville. "As I recall, it was just on a kind of whim that Bob went down," Robbie Robertson, who had spent much of that summer wood shedding with Dylan and the rest of the Band in upstate New York, would later say. To this day, no one knows for sure when Dylan wrote
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: How Bob Dylan Crafted a Minimal New Sound on ‘John Wesley Harding’