# Bob Dylan thinks there is one musician who will last forever: “He rises above all”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/bob-dylan-thinks-there-is-one-musician-who-will-last-forever-he-rises-above-all/
- Published: 2026-10-28T16:25:18+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T01:40:02+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/musician-bob-dylan-says-will-last-forever/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Dylan called Johnny Cash “the North Star”.
- Cash recorded Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe” in 1964.
- They recorded “Girl from the North Country” together in 1969.

## Summary

Bob Dylan paid tribute to Johnny Cash as a musician whose influence and legacy would endure, describing him as “the North Star” and saying he “rises high above all”. The praise reflects the mutual respect between two artists who helped bring each other’s songs to wider audiences.

Dylan admired Cash from hearing his records as a young man, while Cash recorded Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe” in 1964 and defended him in an open letter after criticism from a folk magazine. The pair later recorded “Girl from the North Country” together in 1969. After Cash died in 2003, Dylan wrote that Cash was “the greatest of the greats”.

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