Bob gets bling for being Bob

Christa Lawler of the Duluth News-Tribune has a nice story today about Bob Dylan receiving the Medal of Freedom from President Obama yesterday. She did interview me for the story, but I rather enjoy the quotes from Dylan’s high school bandmate LeRoy Hoikkala of Hibbing:

“I’m proud of him,” Hoikkala said. “Everything he got, he earned. He had no help from anybody else.”

Hoikkala of Hibbing described young Dylan as “independent, patient and restless,” and said he can see the high school version of Dylan in the current version.

“Basically he doesn’t pretend,” he said. “Everything he says and does, whether it’s good or bad, he’s always himself.”

Read the whole story here. The ceremony Tuesday capped off more than a week of shared celebrations of Dylan’s musical and artistic legacy in his hometowns of Duluth and Hibbing, Minnesota.

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