Bob Dylan influenced many future generations of musicians and songwriters in the '60s. As it turns out, future Yes guitarist Steve Howe was among them.

"I bought the Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album when it came out. I kind of missed his first album, but the second album caught me, with ' Blowin' in the Wind ' and so many great songs," he recalls now in a new conversation with UCR that you can listen to below. "I started to be pretty interested in [Dylan's music]. [When] Another Side of Dylan came out, it was so compelling. This guy with a guitar had songs like 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll' [from 1964's The Times They Are a-Changin' ] and all of these very, very broad ideas."

"Lyrically, rhythmically and vocally, he was a new sound [with that] harmonica and the fa

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