Watching the River Flow: A Roots Salute to Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan recently said: “If you sang ‘John Henry’ as many times as me—‘John Henry was a steel-driving man / Died with a hammer in his hand / John Henry said a man ain’t nothin’ but a man / Before I let that steam drill drive me down / I’ll die with that hammer in my hand.’ If you had sung that song as many times as I did, you’d have written ‘How many roads must a man walk down,’ [the opening line of his song, “Blowin’ in the Wind”] too.”