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Art Garfunkel On Dylan

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Oct 28, 2002, 6:23:04 PM10/28/02
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SongTalk Interview - Art Garfunkel
By Paul Zollo, 1990
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ST: You put out albums under the name Artie Garr?

AG: Singles. Artie Garr. G-a-r-r. One night we [Paul and I hung out. He
showed me these things he was writing because, I think it's fair to say, he
was so impressed with Dylan.

ST: Did you share that enthusiasm?

AG: To the extreme. Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. If you were
a young person at that age, maybe you don't go for Dylan's gravelly style
voice, but who he was and how different and bold his lyrics were, and his
look, that was the closest thing the record business had to James Dean. His
album covers, if you look at the early Dylan, you see a real charismatic
choir boy star of a kid. I remember when Freewheelin Bob Dylan came out, his
second CBS album, I was in Berkeley. I was a carpenter. This was my year off
from architecture school getting field experience And I was singing at
Berkeley in clubs as well as doing carpentry during the day. And I saw in
the record store around early September the new freewheelin' album. And
there's Dylan in the village walking in the snow, and the camera's got an
upward angle on him and he's with his girlfriend. And I knew I had to try
and make another record. [Laughs] That was such a great place to be!
So I came back home [to New York], ran into Paul, he showed me these new
songs he had written, about two or three songs. And they were really
wonderful. And I let him know how keen I was to work out harmonies for them.
In my mind I was thinking, "This has got to make it now. Between the
commerciality of these folky songs that Paul's writing, and the blend that
we had worked on in the past, which will now serve us, we should have a shot
at a career."

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