At any rate, another producer was brought in to help out – an unlikely though inspired choice as it turned out.  As described in Wikipedia:  “Because of [Albert] Grossman’s hostility to [John] Hammond, Columbia paired Dylan with a young, African-American jazz producer, Tom Wilson.  Wilson recalled:  ‘I didn’t even particularly like folk music.  I’d been recording Sun Ra and [John] Coltrane. . . .  I thought folk music was for the dumb guys.  [Dylan] played like the dumb guys, but then these words came out.  I was flabbergasted.’”   

(June 2013/2)

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The debut album by the Silencers, The Silencers came out on Total Energy Records at about the same time as several albums by their label-mates Davie Allan and the Arrows.  For the most part, the songs are originals, with the one exception being “Journey to the Stars” that has five songwriters listed on Allmusic:  Bob Bogle, Don Wilson, Nokie Edwards, and Mel Taylor of the Ventures, plus Sun Ra. 

(December 2014)