Artists like Bob Dylan aren't necessarily meant to be understood; they're meant to be experienced. And that's likely what artist Rita Coolidge chalks her encounters up to with the prolific folk singer—"an experience." Her exact words? "He's quirky."
The incident that earned him the label from Coolidge set a pretty fair precedent. The two met on the set of Sam Peckinpah’s 1973 western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, which starred Dylan and her future husband Kris Kristofferson. Dylanwrote the song "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and the rest of the score for the film, and apparently took liberties with the wardrobe.
“Bob would go into the wardrobe truck and decide which hat he was going to wear that day,” Guitar Playerreports she told The Church Studio. “And then, for the next scene, if he was able to get another hat, he would."
He made it "a thing."
“One day, I was at the house. Sara [Dylan’s first wife] said, ‘Let me show you something.’ She opened the door and the closet was stacked this high with hats. So Bob was wearing his hats home. He'd go to work the next morning and Peckinpah would go, ‘Where's the hat you had last night?’ ‘Don't have it anymore.’ They were all in his closet.”
What It Was Like Working With Bob Dylan
Coolidge isn't the first to comment on the quirks of Dylan. Among the many artists he has worked with, most were left with unforgettable interactions.
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"Bob Dylan is the most consistent artist there is. Even his stuff which people loathe, I like," former Beatle the late George Harrison once said, according to Express. "Every single thing he does represents something that’s him. He may write better songs tomorrow, sing high on this album and low on another, go electric or acoustic, go weird or whatever, but the basic thing that causes all this change is an incredible character named Bob Dylan." He added, "He's the looniest person I know."
Coolidge’s take was no different. In addition to the small role she played in the film, she sang backup on the now iconic tune, and noted he kept everyone on their toes.
“We’re trying to sing background with him, but he kept changing the lyrics,” she said. “So we'd get to the part where we're supposed to be singing with him — he's singing something else... He did that once at a Christmas party, or a New Year's Eve party,” she adds. “He was playing ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ and he kept rewriting lyrics, and everybody's trying to sing along. He's like, ‘No way, that's not the way I'm doing it tonight.’"
Still, Dylan's genius persisted. The song they recorded for the film went on to live many lives at the hands of admiring artists, including Eric Clapton and the most famous electric reimagining by Guns N’ Roses.
“He’s a quirky guy," Coolidge assessed, and nary a colleague disagrees.
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