Bob Dylan’s First Interview in Years Offers Takes on George Floyd, the Pandemic, Little Richard and … the Eagles
Chris Willman Music WriterWho knew that Bob Dylan was not only determinedly pro-Eagles — take that, Henley/Frey haters! — but that he thinks the Joe Walsh-penned “Pretty Maids in a Row,” probably the least revived song on the “Hotel California” album, is “one of the best songs ever”?No one, probably, prior to Friday’s publication in the New York Times of Dylan’s first interview in at least four years, and the only one he’s known to be giving in support of his new album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” which comes out June 19.The Q&A by history professor and author Douglas Brinkley mainly drifts toward weightier issues than Dylan’s unexpected Walsh fandom, including the pandemic, the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and, not to put too frivolous a