How Bob Dylan talked his way into his first recording session 60 years ago
“Chronicles: Volume One.”In those days, Dylan was playing whenever he could in New York, doing the rounds at Cafe Wha?, the Gaslight and Kettle of Fish. He knew that he needed a recording contract to take it to the next level, but he’d been rejected by two labels, Folkways and Vanguard.That summer, a couple of months after Dylan met Hester, he heard that she was performing at Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., which had its own Village-like scene.Hester, there with her then-husband Richard Fariña, was surprised to hear about her opening act that night: “There was Bob Dylan, he was going to open for me.