I know it's a little belated but I found this swell picture and had to share it.

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Oh man....at first glance I thought it was that Bobby Allen Zimmerman kid from Minnesota.

Looks more like Woody Guthrie than Bob Dylan, to me.

Jack

Damn, that Eleanor was almost as ugly as Michelle Obama.

Jack

That picture does look a lot like a very young Bob Dylan -- from circa 1962, when he was still patterning himself on Woody Guthrie.

Young Bob.

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(Looking more like Woody)

Man of Constant Sorrow

Dylan had a striking resemblence to Woody Guthrie when he was young. I often wondered if he cultivated the appearance or if it was just coincidental.

Jack

Seeger plays lots of instruments but usually appears picking away on old his 5 string banjo. His pose in Rye's picture is very typical of Woody Guthrie: Head back, throat stretched out, voice reaching the back rows. Woody always a western style hat and played a beat up guitar.

Dylan in the early 60's appeared in the clothes he had slept in for a week. His voice was terrible and hasn't improved. His guitar skills were minimal and slow to improve. His songwriting, like Guthrie's and Seeger's, spoke to and for a generation.

Great photo of a great performer. Looks like the two sailors are singing along and checking out the chicks.

Dylan in the early 60's appeared in the clothes he had slept in for a week. His voice was terrible and hasn't improved

I think I was 12 or 13 when I went to the winter Carnegie Hall hootenanny at which Seeger introduced Bob Dylan to the NY folk world. He did Hard Rain Gonna Fall and the audience was both puzzled and dismayed - they couldn't believe this was for real.

Sometime later I went to a Freedom Rider fundraiser and everyone was singing Blowing in the Wind.

His voice was terrible and hasn't improved.

I guess just another example of how beauty is in the eye (or in this case, the ear) of the beholder.