Blowin' in the wind: lost interviews and letters hold new Dylan insights

Transcripts of lost 1971 Dylan interviews and letters are among a trove of Dylan archives being auctioned in November. Photo: AP

For nearly half a century, they were blowin' in the wind: lost interviews that contained surprising new insights about celebrated singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

Transcripts of the 1971 interviews with the late American blues artist Tony Glover - and letters the two friends exchanged - have surfaced at a Boston auction house. They reveal that Dylan changed his name because he worried about anti-Semitism and wrote Lay Lady Lay for actress Barbra Streisand.