Had no idea Jimmy carter and Bob Dylan are good friends

[gabeana]

Meroney: You’re unique because you’re the only president I know of who’s quoted Bob Dylan in speeches. You said that you didn’t appreciate the relationship between a landowner and the people who work for him until you heard Dylan sing, “I Ain’t Gonna Work on Maggie’s Farm No More.”

Carter: Well, Bob Dylan and I have been very close friends since I was governor. I first met him when he was going through an era of deep Christian faith. When he performed once in Atlanta, he wanted to spend some time talking to me about my faith. His band came to the governor’s mansion and stayed with my boys. Bob and I spent a long time in the garden that night just talking about matters concerning theology and religion and so forth. Earlier this year, when Bob Dylan got the Person of the Year award at the Grammys, he said he would accept the award in Hollywood only if I came out and presented it to him. So I went out there and was able to be with Bob again. He’s been to Georgia one time since, and I took my family to hear him perform.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/jimmy-carter-QA/398279/

[sl8]

1. I think I learned that they were friends from Doonesbury:

http://www.dougdir.com/doug_rocks_records/2014/08/legen.html

This weeks Classic Doonesbury: Jimmy Carter summons Bob Dylan for inspiration. August 25-28,1977.

[gabeana]

2. thanks for posting

always enjoy learning new things

[blueinredohio]

3. Cool, I love both of them

[Tanuki]

4. Jimmy Carter was also good friends with the late Gregg Allman

https://www.google.com/amp/www.ajc.com/news/jimmy-carter-says-attend-gregg-allman-funeral-macon-saturday/D8pwvVgmWbxRAK22cOF6YJ/amp.html

...."Gregg and the Allman Brothers Band were very helpful to me in my 1976 presidential campaign,” Carter said in the statement. “Gregg Allman was better known than I was at that time. The band got the campaign political attention and raised much needed funds.”


Turnabout was fair play. In 1974, Carter invited Allman to a party he was hosting for Bob Dylan at the Governor’s Mansion on West Paces Ferry Road in Buckhead. And in January 1977, the Allman Brothers Band were guests at Carters’ Inaugural Ball in Washington D.C."...(more)

[OnDoutside]

5. If you had asked me that question, I could have told you,

the answer was Blowing in the Wind.....


I'll get my coat ....

[Honeycombe8]

6. Well, it ain't no use to sit and wonder why. But don't think twice. It's all right. :)

I didn't know that, either. Cool.

I think Dylan was also friends with Johnny Cash. Cash loved Dylan's music and recorded some of it.