In 1962, Joan Baez earned the right to be on the cover of TIME Magazine. She was the undisputed Queen of Folk Music at a time when there was no such thing as an undisputed King of Folk Music. But many contenders aspired to the throne and many pretenders claimed it as their own.
One of the "contenders" had the Queen in his corner. Joan Baez, with a voice descended from the heavens, was awestruck by a male folksinger who TIME described in the following manner.
He delivers his songs in a studied nasal that has just the right clothespin-on-the-nose honesty to appeal to those who most deeply care.
The folksinger was Bob Dylan. The November 23, 1962 issue of TIME had more to say about the 21-year-old "promising hobo." But this was the first time his name ever appeared in the magazine.
On the TIME-archives link, there is an antique video clip of Dylan's clothespin-on-the-nose hostility directed toward a TIME magazine reporter.
Bob Dylan's fifty-year career is detailed in the magazine's archival website which proves that The TIME...It is a changing.
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