Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan (1962)

Slothrop: As a 21 year old kid, Dylan already had death in his consciousness; partly explains why he's so fierce. The rest cannot be explained. So the journey begins:

Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind.

Koko: Now is as good a time as any to admit that the lines "Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again / Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train" inspired me at the tender age of sixteen to hop a freighter out of Niles, California, bound for I don't know where because I missed the handrail, fell five feet onto a pile of damn jagged rocks, and split my lip open. Lucky I didn't break anything or die, I suppose, but still, it's humiliating to fall from a very slowly moving vehicle. I guess I'm no hobo--but I do have a hobo's heart. Blues, too. Oh, lawdy mama, got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes.