When Dylan lands in New York City with little more than a snap-buttoned cap, an acoustic guitar, and a dream of meeting Woody Guthrie, he wears a farmer-ish pair of late-’50s Levi’s 501s; by ...

The flat cap that baby-faced Dylan wore on the cover of his first album looks an awful lot like one that Blind Willie McTell wore in the 1920s and ’30s. (Dylan, of course, would later write an ...