Thanks much to reader Brendan for this background on the cover photo for Bob Dylan’s Together Through Life:

About the cover photo – that same image was also used on the paperback cover of Larry Brown’s book of short stories, Big Bad Love. According to Jim Dickinson, Bob’s a big Larry Brown fan, so it must be a tip of the hat to him in some way.

Keyboard player Jim Dickinson talks about Dylan being a fan of the author Larry Brown in an interview at this link:

[Q:] Talk about when Bob came down to Mississippi to visit you a few years later.

JD: Yeah—that was great. It’s when he was on that tour with Paul Simon. He called up—sometimes he calls when he comes through town. Most of the time he won’t, but he did that time and he said (Dylan inflection) ‘Hey, I gotta day off. Why don’t you take me through Mississippi?’ I said alright. He came down here when the boys were still living in the other trailer—I’ve got two trailers and the barn. The barn is my studio—the boys went over and hid in their trailer and started peeking out the window when they saw Dylan go by.

We talked about Larry Brown. Dylan said, ‘You know Larry Brown?’ I kind of made light of it, and I said ‘Yeah, he’s this drunk guy that hangs out at this bar where my kids play.’ And Dylan looked at me real sternly like I said the wrong thing and he said ‘I read every word he ever wrote.’ Oh well, allow me to re-assess my evaluation (laughs) of my good friend Larry Brown.

Note: Larry Brown died on November 24th, 2004.

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