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Anne Margaret Daniel

Boy from the North Country

Boy from the North Country

I’m North Dakota-Minnesota Midwestern. I’m that color. I speak that way. I’m from someplace called the Iron Range. My brains and feelings have come from there. — Bob Dylan, Playboy, 1966 Born in St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, on May 24, 1941, Robert Allen Zimmerman lived

Keep It Goin': Levon Helm's Midnight Rambles

Keep It Goin': Levon Helm's Midnight Rambles

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally appeared in the Summer 2016/Homegrown edition of No Depression's quarterly journal, which is now sold out. Subscribe to No Depression today and never miss another issue. Rambling at midnight goes back many centuries and encompasses, to put it mildly, a

Watching Bob Dylan in Mesa, Arizona (1988)

Watching Bob Dylan in Mesa, Arizona (1988)

Mesa, Arizona: July 1988 In the summer of 1988, I had my first truly fabulous and lucrative job in a big city: Philadelphia. Dapper in my professional Brooks Brothers suits from Filene's Basement, and sober closed-toed shoes, I was making what seemed (then and now) a silly amount

When Lucian Truscott Comes to Your Bob Dylan Class

When Lucian Truscott Comes to Your Bob Dylan Class

Lucian King Truscott IV is, to quote Liz Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story (1940), no homespun tag. Its bearer has a long American heritage on both sides of his family: grandfather Lucian Truscott Jr. was a highly decorated World War II general; and grandmother Sarah Randolph was Thomas Jefferson'

Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Speech: Literature, Art, Professionalism, Shakespeare

Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Speech: Literature, Art, Professionalism, Shakespeare

In Stockholm today, Patti Smith sang Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (beginning at 1:02:56), and the United States Ambassador to Sweden, Azita Raji, presented Bob Dylan's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature on his behalf. Dylan&

Oh, Shenandoah: Down the Valley with Bob Dylan in Roanoke, Virginia

Oh, Shenandoah: Down the Valley with Bob Dylan in Roanoke, Virginia

Roanoke is a beautiful small city cupped by the Blue Ridge Mountains, resting on the banks of the Roanoke River in the Roanoke Valley, which is at the southern tip of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. These places take their name from the Native American tribe living in what is

Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate

Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate

In the wake of the — to me — superb and delightful news of Bob Dylan receiving the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature this week, there has been, to quote a phrase from Dylan's fellow Minnesota wordsmith F. Scott Fitzgerald, some foul dust floating in that wake. Writers, and non-writers,