Freewheelin' Suze Rotolo

March, 2011. Suze Rotolo dead at age 69, famous as one half the shot on an album cover, but oh, such more. Suze was Dylan's girlfriend at the time of his second, break out folk alblum, Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. He was walking down a Village street in a light jacket, shivering and she was holding him tight on his arm. Bob Dylan, was really Robert Zimmermann, as she found out when his draft card fell on the floor.  He came to the village full of folk music influences and tall stories about who he was.  She was tied in, a red diaper baby born from New York Italian Reds, a researcher for Alan Lomax the musicologist, a friend of John Cohen the photographer and founder of New Lost City Ramblers, an artist and actress.  She introduced him to poetry, Bertold Brecht's plays, Truffaut's films, Picasso's art. She was also a political activist who volunteered with CORE (The Congress of Racial Equality) and who introduced Dylan to the civil rights movement.  She is the inspiration, the muse for many of his early love songs, civil rights songs and songs derived from the French symbolist poets.  His fame climbed over her, probably not by his intent, and she soon couldn't walk down the street without representing one half of an album cover.  There was the tragedy of an abortion, the break up, and geographic cure in the run to Italy.  Soon she was married and remained a professional artist and a political activist.  Good bye Suze.