Dumb question maybe......why wasn’t he drafted?
Interesting because the “feel like I am fixing to die” is from Dylan’s first album, but I forget the song.
When he was 17 he enlisted in the Navy, and spent three years in Japan. Men who already served in the military were exempt from the draft.
He was a talentless hack parasite.
The song Fixin’ To die on the first Bob Dylan album was written and recorded by Delta blues musician Bukka White in 1940. White was influential and revered by younger blues artists including Tom Rush whose honor of Bukka White in the long Panama Limited brought some deserved name recognition to the older man. The complicated fingering and tones on White’s Panama Limited is reminiscent of Robert Johnson’s. Sounds like two or even three guitars with the chiming bell tone, the wheels rushing and so on.