When I was a teenager I listened to a lot of folk music and one of my favorites was Bob Dylan’s first album The Freewheeling Bob Dylan (I even still have the record). I never thought much about the picture on the cover until about two years ago when I heard this interview on Fresh Air with Suze Rotolo — turns out she’s the woman on the cover. She had just published a book about her relationship with Dylan, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. My interest was even more piqued when Rotolo said she makes artist’s books — you can see them on her website. Sadly Rotolo died this week, her obituary is here.
FYI, this is Dylan’s 2nd album