Dylan also lent Shelton’s apartement to have a place to write. Robert Shelton’s review was the start of a proffesional relationship with Bob Dylan, and he wrote the liner notes to the album, Bob Dylan. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. He wrote about music for the New York Times until the end of the '60s. Shelton helped to launch the career of a then-unknown 20-year-old Bob Dylan. Shelton’s positive review, in The New York Times, brought crucial publicity to Dylan, and led to a Columbia recording contract. Robert Shelton, born Robert Shapiro, was a music and film critic. In 1961, Dylan was performing atGerdes Folk City in the West Village, one of the best-known folk venues in New York, opening for a bluegrass act called the Greenbriar Boys. With both men living in Greenwich Village, they hung out and bonded. Sheldon and Dylan first met when Shelton reviewed Bob on 29 th September 1961 at Gerde’s Folk City in New York. Shelton was perhaps most notable for the way in which he helped to launch the career of a then unknown 20-year-old folk singer named Bob Dylan. Shelton often rebukes his muse calling Bob the sponge and a cruel, self-centred loner nonetheless, Robert was also Dylan’s greatest advocate. Robert Shelton, born Robert Shapiro (June 28, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, United States – December 11, 1995, Brighton, England) was a music and film critic. “He was a cross between a choir boy and a beatnik, a 20-year-old with a voice, anything but pretty”
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