Chronology
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*1964*
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February
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3-Bob sets out on a cross-country trip wtih Victor Maimudes, his road manager, Pete Karman, a writer, and Play Clayton, a folk singer. They visit striking miners in Hazard, Kentucky, and poet Carl Sandburg in Hendersonville, North Carolina. They go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras-an experience which "made many lasting impressions on Dylan"-Robert Shelton contends. During the trip, Bob composes "Chimes Of Freedom".
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March
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The affair with Suze Rotolo finally ends. "As Dylan got more and more famous, things got more and more oppressive. It was a whole bad time and I really crumbled. I didn't see myself as Bob Dylan's wife. All I wanted to do was to get aways from it all."-Suze Rotolo.
Bob commemorates the affair's passing by writing 'Ballad In Plain D'.
"I understood what he was doing. It was the end of something and we both were hurt and bitter. His art was his outlet, his exorcism. It was healthy. That was the way he wrote out his life."-Suze Rotolo.
"That one I look back and say, 'I must have been a real shmuck to write that.' Of all the songs I've written, maybe I could have left that alone."-Bob Dylan
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May
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Bob visits Londong for one concert at the Festival Hall. He then has a brief holiday in Paris and Greece. In the village of Vermilya, outside Athens, he write some of the material which he will record for his next LP, "ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN." "Tom Wilson, the producer, titled it that. I begged and pleaded with him not to do it. It seemed like a negation of the past, which in no way was true."-Bob Dylan
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June
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9-In one evening in Columbia Studios, New York City, Bob records 14 songs for his fourth LP, playing piano for the first time on record and moving markedly away from the earlier political "finger-pointing" work. "From now on I want to write from inside me, and to do that I'm going to have to get back to writing like I used to when I was 10-having everything come out naturally."-Bob Dylan
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July
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*At the Newport Folk Festival, Bob disappoints the folkies who are expecting a repeat celebration of Civil Rights protest. Bob's new material-'Mr. Tambourine Man', 'Chimes Of Freedom'-and his new hipness take many by surprise. He leaves the confusion and aguments behind him by going up to Woodstcok for the summer with Joan Baez, her sister Mimi and Mimi's husband Richard Farina.
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August
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28-Al Aronowitz takes Bob from Woodstock to New York to meet The Beatles. At a famous night in the Delmoico Hotel, the Americans introduce the Fabs to cannabis.
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October
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31-*A major solo concert at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City on Halloween has Bob Dylan introducing Joan Baez as guest, after appearing as guest artiste in her concerts in previous months.
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December
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25-According to a US teen mag, several Bob-given surprises are to be found under Joan Baez's Christms tree: "a strangely shaped green rock he had found while hitching through Colorado, a brightly coloured African scarf, and old Duncan yo-yo, an autoharp he had swapped from a woman in Maine, a sea-shell he had picked up on the beach at Coney Island, a pogo stick, three "Batman" comics, a copy of Lorca's "Gypsy Ballads", a record of Blind Lemon Jefferson singing "Bedbug Blues", an old chewing tobacco tin to keep buttons in, a coon skin cap, an two boxes of dried sunflowers seed."
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